motel
\mɔ.tɛl\
The verdict
“motel” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,623. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,623
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hôtel situé au bord d’une route accueillant principalement des automobilistes qui peuvent parfois garer leur automobile juste devant leur porte de chambre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motel · motel · French
motel · rank #22,623 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,623
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mourad
Nearest frequency peer: Mourad (+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 « motel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- migratoires
migratoires
77,382 corpus weight
- Mongolie
Mongolie
77,380 corpus weight
- motel
motel
77,378 corpus weight
- Mourad
Mourad
77,377 corpus weight
- Mussolini
Mussolini
77,376 corpus weight
- Mustapha
Mustapha
77,375 corpus weight
What this shows « motel » 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 | motel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around motel (IPA \mɔ.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,623 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hôtel situé au bord d’une route accueillant principalement des automobilistes qui peuvent parfois garer leur automobile juste devant leur porte de chambre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for motel, with forms such as "mmotel", "moetl", and "motell". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mots", "move", "muté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is motel, spelled M-O-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Hôtel situé au bord d’une route accueillant principalement des automobilistes qui peuvent parfois garer leur automobile juste devant leur porte de chambre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how motel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Willams, jolie petite halte, petite ville, petit motel et, oh miracle ! Un resto qui a une terrasse, musique, barbecue...
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotel
- moetl
- motell
- motle
- mottel
- mtoel
- omtel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motel - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).