habileté
\a.bil.te\
The verdict
“habileté” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,725. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,725
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Facilité, disposition, qualité qui rend propre à faire certaines choses, à réussir dans certaines actions, en particulier en utilisant ses mains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-habilete · habileté · French
habileté · rank #17,725 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,725
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH guitares
Nearest frequency peer: guitares (-2 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « habileté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- glucose
glucose
82,280 corpus weight
- griffe
griffe
82,279 corpus weight
- guitares
guitares
82,278 corpus weight
- habileté
habileté
82,276 corpus weight
- hausses
hausses
82,274 corpus weight
- Herbert
Herbert
82,273 corpus weight
What this shows « habileté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | habileté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bil.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « habileté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around habileté (IPA \a.bil.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,725 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for habileté, with forms such as "ahbileté", "habbileté", and "habielté". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "habite", "habille", "habitée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is habileté, spelled H-A-B-I-L-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Facilité, disposition, qualité qui rend propre à faire certaines choses, à réussir dans certaines actions, en particulier en utilisant ses mains.
- 2Tour d'adresse.
- 3Titre que les rois mérovingiens donnaient à certains de leurs officiers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how habileté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il accordait à son frère une grande habileté. Selon lui, ce gros garçon endormi ne sommeillait jamais que d’un œil, comme les chats à l’affût devant un trou de souris.
[…] Marguerite, d’une aiguille d’or à la pointe arrondie, sondait les plaies avec toute la délicatesse et l’habileté que maître Ambroise Paré eût pu déployer en pareille circonstance.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahbileté
- habbileté
- habielté
- habilete
- habiletté
- habileét
- habilleté
- habilteé
- hablieté
- haibleté
- hbaileté
- hhabileté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habileté - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).