habillage
\a.bi.jaʒ\
The verdict
“habillage” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #28,981 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #28,981
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Apprêt que l’on fait subir à un animal pour le faire cuire.
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 | habillage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bi.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “habillage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for habillage is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bi.jaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,981 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for habillage, with forms such as "ahbillage", "habbillage", and "habilage". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "habille", "habillée", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is habillage, spelled H-A-B-I-L-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Apprêt que l’on fait subir à un animal pour le faire cuire.
- 2Opération qui consiste à écorcher, à vider et à mettre en état de pouvoir être apprêtés à la cuisine du veau ou du mouton.
- 3Première préparation avant de saler des saumons ou des morues.
- 4Préparation que subit une peau avant d’être employée.
- 5Opération qui consiste à passer le chanvre par le séran.
- 6Opération qui consiste à raccourcir les branches ou les racines d’un arbre ou d’un arbuste avant de le planter.
- 7Addition à une pièce de poterie d’une oreille, d’un manche, d’un pied, etc.
- 8Enluminure des cartes à jouer.
- 9Action de monter une carde ou de la faire.
- 10Action d’accoupler les coupons d’un train de bois flotté pour le faire ou le continuer.
- 11Ensemble des pièces détachées (boîte, cadran, aiguilles, glace, couronne, etc) qui, en revêtant le mouvement, contribuent à donner son aspect définitif et utilitaire à la montre.
- 12Lignes d’impression par lesquelles on entoure une gravure.
- 13Ensemble des indications et des figures extérieures à la surface cartographiée.
- 14Ensemble de ressources modifiant l'apparence d'une interface graphique. Par exemple en langage CSS.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahbillage,habbillage,habilage,habilalge,habillaeg,habillagge,habillgae,hablilage,haibllage,hbaillage,hhabillage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habillage - 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.
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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Using “habillage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-A-B-I-L-L-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.bi.jaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “habille” - see the side-by-side comparison. habillage vs habille
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.