hostellerie
^((h muet))\ɔs.tɛl.ʁi\
The verdict
“hostellerie” is uncommon French (frequency #72,409 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,409
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de hôtellerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hostellerie · hostellerie · French
hostellerie · rank #72,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,409
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Homologie
Nearest frequency peer: Homologie (-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 « hostellerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- heron
heron
27,596 corpus weight
- Herz
Herz
27,595 corpus weight
- Homologie
Homologie
27,593 corpus weight
- hostellerie
hostellerie
27,592 corpus weight
- hush
hush
27,590 corpus weight
- hypertexte
hypertexte
27,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hostellerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hostellerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔs.tɛl.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hostellerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hostellerie is uncommon French at frequency #72,409 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\ɔs.tɛl.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de hôtellerie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hostellerie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hostellerie, spelled H-O-S-T-E-L-L-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de hôtellerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hostellerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les propriétaires du fonds, Auvergnats de père en fils, ont connu des gens célèbres, jadis, et conservent à l’égard du client une bonhomie qui n’est plus admise ailleurs, chez les émancipés de la ville moderne. Des jambons de province y pendent qui ne sont pas des jambons d’hostellerie.
Peu de maisons sont aussi spacieuses que l’hostellerie de J. A. Rochebrun, les particuliers n’ont souvent qu’une ou 2 chambres dans les hameaux et dans le vieux village où les habitations sont serrées les unes contre les autres.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).