hôtel des monnaies
^((h muet))\o.tɛl de mɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“hôtel des monnaies” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtiment où l’on frappe des médailles ou de la monnaie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hotel-des-monnaies · hôtel des monnaies · French
hôtel des monnaies · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hôtel des monnaies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\o.tɛl de mɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
hôtel des monnaies is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\o.tɛl de mɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bâtiment où l’on frappe des médailles ou de la monnaie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hôtel des monnaies, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hôtel des monnaies, spelled H-Ô-T-E-L- -D-E-S- -M-O-N-N-A-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Bâtiment où l’on frappe des médailles ou de la monnaie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hôtel des monnaies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hôtel des monnaies de Paris.
… qui décrétait le rétablissement de l'hôtel des monnaies de Barcelone, supprimé depuis longues années, et ordonnait la fabrication de monnaies provinciales en or , argent et cuivre.
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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.