Which to use
“hospitalier” and “hospitaliers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,720
- “hospitalier” frequency rank
- #14,950
- “hospitaliers” frequency rank
- 23670
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hospitalier | hospitaliers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif aux hôpitaux et aux hospices. | Masculin pluriel de l’adjectif hospitalier. |
Same sound, different letters: hospitalier vs hospitaliers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. hospitalier runs 11 letters (CVCCVCVCVVC) against hospitaliers's 12 (CVCCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - hospitalier / hospitaliers
This is the hard kind. hospitalier and hospitaliers are pronounced identically (^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.lje\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “hospitalier” sits inside “hospitaliers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23670, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hospitalier is recorded at frequency rank #8,720, classified as anadj, pronounced ^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.lje\. hospitaliers is at rank #14,950, tagged as anadj, pronounced ^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.lje\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 23670, this pair ranks #351,114 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of hospitalier vs hospitaliers
Shared letters: aehiloprst. Private to "hospitalier": -. Private to "hospitaliers": -.
"hospitalier" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVC · "hospitaliers" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- hospitalier ← hhospitalier · hopsitalier · hosiptalier · hospiatlier · hospitailer · hospitaleir · hospitalierr · hospitalire
- hospitaliers ← hhospitaliers · hopsitaliers · hosiptaliers · hospiatliers · hospitailers · hospitaleirs · hospitalierrs · hospitalierss
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "hospitalier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "hospitaliers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #351,114 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "hospitalier" and "hospitaliers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hospitalières vs hospitaliers". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #351,114 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.