hôtelier
French, noun/o.tə.lje/
hôtelier is spelled H-Ô-T-E-L-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hôtelier is a French masculine noun meaning “hotelier (hotel-owner)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui tient un hôtel pour voyageurs”.
What does hôtelier mean in English?
adjective
- 1
hotel
l’industrie hôtelière
noun
- 1
masculinehotelier (hotel-owner)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui concerne l’hôtellerie.
noun: 1. Celui qui tient un hôtel pour voyageurs. 2. Se disait, dans quelques abbayes, d’un religieux chargé de recevoir et de nourrir les hôtes de passage.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hôtelier
- hôtelière feminine
- hôteliers masculine plural
- hôtelières feminine plural
- ^((h muet))\ɔ.tə.lje\ singular masculine
- ^((h muet))\ɔ.tə.ljɛʁ\ singular feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hôtelier?
- /o.tə.lje/
- /ɔ.tə.lje/
- ^((h muet))\ɔ.tə.lje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hôtelier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hôtelier in French?
hôtelier appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).