hospitaliser
\ɔs.pi.ta.li.ze\
The verdict
“hospitaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #63,053 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,053
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Placer quelqu’un dans un hôpital afin d’y être soigné ou d’y recevoir un traitement médical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hospitaliser · hospitaliser · French
hospitaliser · rank #63,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,053
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Huguet
Nearest frequency peer: Huguet (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « hospitaliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Heurtel
Heurtel
36,952 corpus weight
- hifi
hifi
36,951 corpus weight
- hospitaliser
hospitaliser
36,948 corpus weight
- Huguet
Huguet
36,947 corpus weight
- humiliantes
humiliantes
36,946 corpus weight
- huppés
huppés
36,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hospitaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hospitaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔs.pi.ta.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hospitaliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hospitaliser is uncommon French at frequency #63,053 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔs.pi.ta.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hospitaliser in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hospitaliser, spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Placer quelqu’un dans un hôpital afin d’y être soigné ou d’y recevoir un traitement médical.
- 2Donner l’hospitalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hospitaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors qu’il purge une peine à perpétuité pour crimes de guerre, l’ancien chef militaire des Serbes de Bosnie, Ratko Mladic, a été hospitalisé « en mauvais état de santé », a déclaré son fils, Darko Mladic, dimanche.
Les Grecs émigrés de Turquie étaient à eux seuls un million cinq cent mille. Jamais le gouvernement hellénique n'eût pu les hospitaliser sans le secours de la S.D.N..
This word in other languages
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.
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