no-tell motel
"no-tell-motel" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“no-tell motel” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | no-tell motel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “no-tell motel” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
no-tell motel is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for no-tell motel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme. The correct English form is no-tell motel, spelled N-O---T-E-L-L- -M-O-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.
Etymology
Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.
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 “no-tell motel”
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- The one correct English spelling is N-O---T-E-L-L- -M-O-T-E-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.