habiletés

\a.bil.te\

/\a.bil.te\/ noun

The verdict

“habiletés” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,428. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,428
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de habileté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-habiletes · habiletés · French

habiletés · rank #32,428 · 14 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,428
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH génératrice

Nearest frequency peer: génératrice (-1 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 « habiletés »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « habiletés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

habiletés vs habites
67% similar
habiletés vs habilité
78% similar
habiletés vs habitées
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for habiletés
PropertyValue
Headwordhabiletés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bil.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#32,428
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « habiletés »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.habiletésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « génératrice » (#32,427), « hangars » (#32,429), « guérisseur » (#32,426). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « habiletés » est au #32,428. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around habiletés (IPA \a.bil.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,428 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de habileté.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for habiletés, with forms such as "ahbiletés", "habbiletés", and "habieltés". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "habites", "habilité", "habitées", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is habiletés, spelled H-A-B-I-L-E-T-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de habileté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how habiletés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces derniers consolident la mémoire, et en particulier la mémoire procédurale qui engramme les habiletés motrices, puisque le cerveau profite de la nuit pour exécuter de nouveau ce qu’il a expérimenté ou appris.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ahbiletés
  • habbiletés
  • habieltés
  • habiletes
  • habiletsé
  • habilettés
  • habiletéss
  • habileéts
  • habilletés
  • habilteés
  • hablietés
  • haibletés
  • hbailetés
  • hhabiletés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habiletés - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ahbiletés2habbiletés1habieltés2habiletes1habiletsé2habilettés1habiletéss1habileéts2
Edit distance from "habiletés"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "habiletés"?
"habiletés" is spelled H-A-B-I-L-E-T-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bil.te\.
What does "habiletés" mean?
As a noun, "habiletés" means: Pluriel de habileté.
What words are commonly confused with "habiletés"?
"habiletés" is commonly confused with "habites", "habilité", "habitées". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "habiletés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "habiletés" is \a.bil.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "habiletés" come from?
"habiletés" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "habiletés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list