hospitalité

Name: hospitalité, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\

/\ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“hospitalité” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,404. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,404
frequency rank, French: 109,908
“H” headwords: 17
tracked misspellings: 5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État de qui est hospitalier, générosité de cœur, sociabilité qui dispose à accueillir quelqu'un chez soi.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

hospitalité vs hospitalier

82% similar

hospitalité vs hospitalisé

91% similar

hospitalité vs hospitalière

75% similar

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

Key facts for hospitalité
Property	Value
Headword	hospitalité
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\
Letters	11
Frequency rank	#15,404
Misspellings tracked	17
Confusable pairs	5
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “hospitalité” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). hospitalité lands here:

#15,404

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around hospitalité (IPA \ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,404 among 109,908 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for hospitalité, with forms such as "hhospitalité", "hopsitalité", and "hosiptalité". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hospitalier", "hospitalisé", "hospitalière", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hospitalité, spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

1
État de qui est hospitalier, générosité de cœur, sociabilité qui dispose à accueillir quelqu'un chez soi.
2
Charité, libéralité qu’on exerce en recevant en logeant gratuitement les étrangers, les passants.
3
Action de recevoir chez soi.
4
Obligation où étaient certaines abbayes de recevoir les voyageurs pendant quelques jours.
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

inhospitalité

This word in other languages

hospitality(English)Gastfreundschaft(Deutsch)hospitalidade(Português)

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

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hospitalité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "hospitalité"

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 "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. 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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Using “hospitalité”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct French spelling is H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Say it as \ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
Don't mix it up with “hospitalier” - see the side-by-side comparison. hospitalité vs hospitalier
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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.