hôtel du département
^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl dy de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“hôtel du département” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hôtel dans lequel le préfet d’un département a ses bureaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hôtel du département |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl dy de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hôtel du département” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hôtel du département is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl dy de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hôtel du département in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 du département, spelled H-Ô-T-E-L- -D-U- -D-É-P-A-R-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Hôtel dans lequel le préfet d’un département a ses bureaux.
- 2Siège du conseil départemental.
Synonyms
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 du département”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-Ô-T-E-L- -D-U- -D-É-P-A-R-T-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl dy de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\ (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.