mental hospital
"mental-hospital" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mental hospital” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mental-hospital · mental hospital · English
mental hospital · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mental hospital |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mental hospital” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mental hospital is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.".
mental hospital has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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: Piecewise doublet of mental hotel. The correct English form is mental hospital, spelled M-E-N-T-A-L- -H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.
Etymology
Piecewise doublet of mental hotel.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.