habitat
/ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/noun
habitat is spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-T: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, habitat means “Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of habitat is habitats.
How many letters and syllables are in habitat?
| Letters | 7: H-A-B-I-T-A-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is habitat?
Habitat appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce habitat?
- US /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/
Habitat has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-habitat.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-habitat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of habitat
- habitats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does habitat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.
- 2
A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
- 3
A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
- 4
A place in which a person lives.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate habitat?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of habitat: hab..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Habitat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | habitat |
| German | Habitat, Lebensbedingungen, Lebensraum , natürlicher Lebensraum, Standort, Heimat |
| Portuguese | habitat |
| Spanish | hábitat |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does habitat come from?
From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“to live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).