mental hospital
"mental-hospital" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mental hospital” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mental hospital |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mental hospital” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for mental hospital is 15 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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Using “mental hospital”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-E-N-T-A-L- -H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.