bar à hôtesses
\ba.ʁ‿a o.tɛs\
The verdict
“bar à hôtesses” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bar qui accueille une clientèle essentiellement masculine, dans l’après-midi et le soir, laquelle y rencontre des hôtesses d’accueil rémunérées au volume de consommation des clients.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bar à hôtesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁ‿a o.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bar à hôtesses” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bar à hôtesses is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ʁ‿a o.tɛs\. 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: "Bar qui accueille une clientèle essentiellement masculine, dans l’après-midi et le soir, laquelle y rencontre des hôtesses d’accueil rémunérées au volume de consommation des clients.".
bar à hôtesses has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bar à hôtesses, spelled B-A-R- -À- -H-Ô-T-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Bar qui accueille une clientèle essentiellement masculine, dans l’après-midi et le soir, laquelle y rencontre des hôtesses d’accueil rémunérées au volume de consommation des clients.
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 “bar à hôtesses”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-R- -À- -H-Ô-T-E-S-S-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ba.ʁ‿a o.tɛs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.