hôtel du département
^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl dy de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“hôtel du département” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hôtel dans lequel le préfet d’un département a ses bureaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hotel-du-departement · hôtel du département · French
hôtel du département · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « hôtel du département » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hôtel du département is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl dy de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.