hospital

noun

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The verdict

“hospital” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,888. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,888
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de hôpital.

Corpus desk

Index FR-hospital · hospital · French

hospital · rank #23,888 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #23,888
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH hordes

Nearest frequency peer: hordes (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « hospital »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « hospital » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

hospital vs hôpital
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for hospital
PropertyValue
Headwordhospital
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#23,888
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hospital »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).hospitalse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « hordes » (#23,887), « hymnes » (#23,889), « hobbit » (#23,886). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « hospital » est au #23,888. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around hospital, anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,888 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de hôpital.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hospital, with forms such as "hhospital", "hopsital", and "hosiptal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hôpital", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hospital, spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de hôpital.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how hospital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et parce que ledict logement n'eſt pas suffisant pour leur habitation , & qu'elles occupent encores un quartier dudict hospital destiné pour les enfans exposes , il a eſté bailhé auxdictes dames religieuses , dans le ronds & enclos (…)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhospital
  • hopsital
  • hosiptal
  • hospiatl
  • hospitall
  • hospitla
  • hospittal
  • hosppital
  • hosptial
  • hosspital
  • hsopital
  • ohspital

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hospital - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

hhospital1hopsital2hosiptal2hospiatl2hospitall1hospitla2hospittal1hosppital1
Edit distance from "hospital"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hospital"?
"hospital" is spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L.
What does "hospital" mean?
As a noun, "hospital" means: Variante de hôpital.
What words are commonly confused with "hospital"?
"hospital" is commonly confused with "hôpital". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "hospital" come from?
"hospital" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hospital", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

habilité#23,883immuable#23,894imprévus#23,897inclinée#23,900

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

insolent12 variantsInterpol12 variantsDuplessis12 variantsDjokovic12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list