hôtel de passe
^((h muet))\o.tɛl də pas\
The verdict
“hôtel de passe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Établissement hôtelier où se pratique la prostitution.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hôtel de passe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\o.tɛl də pas\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hôtel de passe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hôtel de passe is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\o.tɛl də pas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Établissement hôtelier où se pratique la prostitution.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hôtel de passe in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hôtel de passe, spelled H-Ô-T-E-L- -D-E- -P-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement hôtelier où se pratique la prostitution.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “hôtel de passe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-Ô-T-E-L- -D-E- -P-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h muet))\o.tɛl də pas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.