hospitalité

/\ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,404

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

hospitalité is aFrenchnoun. It means: État de qui est hospitalier, générosité de cœur, sociabilité qui dispose à accueillir quelqu'un chez soi. Pronounced \ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\. Often confused with hospitalier and hospitalisé.

Key facts for hospitalité
PropertyValue
Headwordhospitalité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#15,404
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of hospitalité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hospitalité is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,404 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for hospitalité, with forms such as "hhospitalité", "hopsitalité", and "hosiptalité". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hospitalier", "hospitalisé", "hospitalière", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hospitalité, spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de qui est hospitalier, générosité de cœur, sociabilité qui dispose à accueillir quelqu'un chez soi.
  2. 2
    Charité, libéralité qu’on exerce en recevant en logeant gratuitement les étrangers, les passants.
  3. 3
    Action de recevoir chez soi.
  4. 4
    Obligation où étaient certaines abbayes de recevoir les voyageurs pendant quelques jours.
  5. 5
    Droit réciproque de loger les uns chez les autres ; droit qui s’exerçait non seulement de particulier à particulier et de famille à famille, mais encore de ville à ville.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hhospitalité,hopsitalité,hosiptalité,hospiatlité,hospitailté,hospitalite,hospitalitté,hospitaliét,hospitallité,hospitaltié,hospitlaité,hospittalité,hosppitalité,hosptialité,hosspitalité,hsopitalité,ohspitalité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hospitalité

Misspelling Variants of "hospitalité"

hhospitalité12hopsitalité11hosiptalité11hospiatlité11hospitailté11hospitalite11hospitalitté12hospitaliét11
Misspelling Variants of "hospitalité"

Frequency rank: #15,404 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hospitalité"?
"hospitalité" is spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\.
What does "hospitalité" mean?
As a noun, "hospitalité" means: État de qui est hospitalier, générosité de cœur, sociabilité qui dispose à accueillir quelqu'un chez soi.
What words are commonly confused with "hospitalité"?
"hospitalité" is commonly confused with "hospitalier", "hospitalisé", "hospitalière". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "hospitalité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hospitalité" is \ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hospitalité" come from?
"hospitalité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.