hôtels
^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl\
The verdict
“hôtels” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,770
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hôtel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hotels · hôtels · French
hôtels · rank #5,770 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,770
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH initial
Nearest frequency peer: initial (+1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « hôtels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- globalement
globalement
94,235 corpus weight
- gré
gré
94,234 corpus weight
- hebdomadaire
hebdomadaire
94,233 corpus weight
- hôtels
hôtels
94,231 corpus weight
- initial
initial
94,230 corpus weight
- initialement
initialement
94,229 corpus weight
What this shows « hôtels » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hôtels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hôtels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around hôtels (IPA ^((h muet))\ɔ.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,770 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de hôtel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for hôtels, with forms such as "hhôtels", "hotels", and "htôels". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "hôtes", "hôtesse", "hôte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hôtels, spelled H-Ô-T-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hôtel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hôtels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu’en 1836 on a démoli sous le faubourg Saint-Honoré, pour le reconstruire, le vieil égout en pierre où nous voyons en ce moment Jean Valjean engagé, le sable mouvant, qui est le sous-sol des Champs-Élysées jusqu’à la Seine, fit obstacle au point que l’opération dura près de six mois, au grand récri des riverains, surtout des riverains à hôtels et à c…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhôtels
- hotels
- htôels
- hôetls
- hôtells
- hôtelss
- hôtesl
- hôtles
- hôttels
- ôhtels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hôtels - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hôtels", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).