motels
\mɔ.tɛl\
The verdict
“motels” is uncommon French (frequency #66,127 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,127
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de motel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motels · motels · French
motels · rank #66,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,127
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mossi
Nearest frequency peer: mossi (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « motels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- morde
morde
33,877 corpus weight
- morphologiq…
morphologiquement
33,876 corpus weight
- mossi
mossi
33,875 corpus weight
- motels
motels
33,874 corpus weight
- motocyclett…
motocyclettes
33,873 corpus weight
- motorisées
motorisées
33,872 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « motels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « motels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
motels is uncommon French at frequency #66,127 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.tɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de motel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for motels in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 motels, spelled M-O-T-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de motel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how motels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’argent gagné par leur mère servait uniquement à manger, ainsi qu’à payer leur chambre dans les motels où elles avaient vécu au fil des ans – avec beaucoup de retard, ce qui valut plusieurs fois à la petite famille d’être expulsée.
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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