hotelier
/həʊˈtɛl.i.ə/
"hotelier" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hotelier” is uncommon English (frequency #60,162 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,162
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who owns or runs a hotel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hotelier · hotelier · English
hotelier · rank #60,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,162
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH horrifically
Nearest frequency peer: horrifically (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “hotelier”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- holme
holme
39,842 corpus weight
- horrifically
horrifically
39,840 corpus weight
- hotelier
hotelier
39,839 corpus weight
- hothouse
hothouse
39,838 corpus weight
- houseguest
houseguest
39,837 corpus weight
- Hx
Hx
39,835 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hotelier” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hotelier |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /həʊˈtɛl.i.ə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hotelier” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hotelier is uncommon English at frequency #60,162 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /həʊˈtɛl.i.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who owns or runs a hotel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hotelier, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French hôtelier. The correct English form is hotelier, spelled H-O-T-E-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who owns or runs a hotel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hotelier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mumbai: Hotelier Gaurav Arya arrived at the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) office in Mumbai on Tuesday to record his statement in a money laundering case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.
Jim managed to secure employment in a hotel on the lake shore, but even then I could see that his interest in being a hotelier was waning.
Etymology
Borrowed from French hôtelier.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).