habilitation
/həˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/
"habilitation" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“habilitation” is uncommon English (frequency #93,773 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,773
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Equipment; qualification.
Corpus desk
Index EN-habilitation · habilitation · English
habilitation · rank #93,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,773
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Gygax
Nearest frequency peer: Gygax (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “habilitation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Gundersen
Gundersen
6,235 corpus weight
- guzzler
guzzler
6,232 corpus weight
- Gygax
Gygax
6,229 corpus weight
- habilitation
habilitation
6,228 corpus weight
- halloumi
halloumi
6,225 corpus weight
- handcraft
handcraft
6,224 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “habilitation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | habilitation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /həˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “habilitation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
habilitation is uncommon English at frequency #93,773 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /həˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for habilitation, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin habilitatio, from Latin habilitāre. The correct English form is habilitation, spelled H-A-B-I-L-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Equipment; qualification.
- 2An act of habilitating.
- 3An academic qualification, prerequiring a PhD, required in order to gain tenure as a professor in some European universities; a thesis or dissertation presented to achieve the qualification.
- 4The act of supplying money to work a mine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how habilitation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For the things which we formerly have spoken of, are but habilitation arms: and what is habilitation without intention and act?
At this same time Gadamer was at work on his habilitation with Heidegger. His habilitation, Plato's Dialectical Ethics, concerned Plato's understanding of the good, and its two leading concepts were dialogue and dialectic.
Etymology
From Latin habilitatio, from Latin habilitāre.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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