déshabituer
\de.za.bi.tɥe\
The verdict
“déshabituer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délivrer d’une habitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deshabituer · déshabituer · French
déshabituer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déshabituer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.za.bi.tɥe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déshabituer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déshabituer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \de.za.bi.tɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déshabituer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is déshabituer, spelled D-É-S-H-A-B-I-T-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Délivrer d’une habitude.
- 2Perdre une habitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déshabituer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelquefois elle nous regardait, Olivier et moi, attentivement, comme pour être bien assurée de se reconnaître et mieux constater son retour et sa présence au milieu de nous ; mais soit qu’elle nous trouvât l’un et l’autre un peu changés, soit que deux mois de séparation et la vue de tant de figures nouvelles l’eussent déshabituée de nos visages, je voyai…
Songez donc ! Vous vous installez au café maure, à côté des pouilleux que vous avez déjà déshabitués de vous saluer…
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.