hôpital psychiatrique
^((h muet))\o.pi.tal psi.kja.tʁik\
The verdict
“hôpital psychiatrique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement hospitalier dans lequel on accueille et traite des personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux jugés sévères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hopital-psychiatrique · hôpital psychiatrique · French
hôpital psychiatrique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | hôpital psychiatrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal psi.kja.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hôpital psychiatrique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hôpital psychiatrique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\o.pi.tal psi.kja.tʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Établissement hospitalier dans lequel on accueille et traite des personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux jugés sévères.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hôpital psychiatrique, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hôpital psychiatrique, spelled H-Ô-P-I-T-A-L- -P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement hospitalier dans lequel on accueille et traite des personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux jugés sévères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hôpital psychiatrique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me souviens d'une cheffe de service dans un hôpital psychiatrique parisien qui avait raconté comment elle avait découvert, médusée, qu'un des antidotes possibles de la mélancolie (appelée aujourd'hui la dépression sévère), ce sont les jeux BDSM. Dit comme ça, cela peut faire sourire ou choquer.
Comme nous l’annoncions le 16 juillet 2021, la fin de la reconstruction de l’hôpital psychiatrique de Bohars est prévue en 2028.
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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.