habilement

/\a.bil.mɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,154

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

habilement is anFrenchadv. It means: D'une manière habile. Pronounced \a.bil.mɑ̃\. Often confused with habillent and habillement.

Key facts for habilement
PropertyValue
Headwordhabilement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a.bil.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,154
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of habilement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for habilement is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bil.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,154 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "D'une manière habile.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for habilement, with forms such as "ahbilement", "habbilement", and "habielment". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "habillent", "habillement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is habilement, spelled H-A-B-I-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    D'une manière habile.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ahbilement,habbilement,habielment,habileemnt,habilemennt,habilementt,habilemetn,habilemment,habilemnet,habilmeent,habliement,haiblement,hbailement,hhabilement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for habilement

Misspelling Variants of "habilement"

ahbilement10habbilement11habielment10habileemnt10habilemennt11habilementt11habilemetn10habilemment11
Misspelling Variants of "habilement"

Frequency rank: #20,154 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "habilement"?
"habilement" is spelled H-A-B-I-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bil.mɑ̃\.
What does "habilement" mean?
As an adv, "habilement" means: D'une manière habile.
What words are commonly confused with "habilement"?
"habilement" is commonly confused with "habillent", "habillement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "habilement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "habilement" is \a.bil.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "habilement" come from?
"habilement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.