Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

capsule hotel

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: cap-sule ho-tel
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).

Example Sentences

""In there?" Yamazaki indicates what he takes to be another door, like the entrance to a hutch, curtained with a soiled square of melon-yellow, foam-cored blanket, the sort of blanket one finds in a capsule hotel."

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from capsule + hotel.

Inflected Forms

capsule hotels (plural)

Synonyms

pod hotel

Questions

What does capsule hotel mean?: A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).
Where does capsule hotel come from?: Phono-semantic matching of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from capsule + hotel.

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