hôtel
French, noun/o.tɛl/
hôtel is spelled H-Ô-T-E-L (5 letters) and appears 93 times per million words in written French, the 902nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hôtel is a French masculine noun meaning “mansion, town house, hotel (in the sense of a town house or mansion)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grande maison ou demeure d’un riche particulier”.
What does hôtel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemansion, town house, hotel (in the sense of a town house or mansion)
- 2
masculinehotel (modern sense)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grande maison ou demeure d’un riche particulier. 2. Maison où n’habite qu’une seule famille. 3. La maison du roi. 4. Grands édifices destinés à des établissements publics.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hôtel
- hôtels plural
- ^((h muet))\o.tɛl\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hôtel?
- /o.tɛl/
- /ɔ.tɛl/
- ^((h muet))\o.tɛl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hôtel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hôtel in French?
hôtel appears 93 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).