hôtel des monnaies
^((h muet))\o.tɛl de mɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“hôtel des monnaies” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bâtiment où l’on frappe des médailles ou de la monnaie.
| 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) |
Where “hôtel des monnaies” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hôtel des monnaies is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\o.tɛl de mɔ.nɛ\. 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: "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.
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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.
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Using “hôtel des monnaies”
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-S- -M-O-N-N-A-I-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h muet))\o.tɛl de mɔ.nɛ\ (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.