habiller
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,065
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
habiller is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre des habits à quelqu’un, le vêtir. Pronounced ^((h muet))\a.bi.je\. It ranks #7,065 in French word frequency. Often confused with Haller and habiter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | habiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\a.bi.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for habiller is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\a.bi.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,065 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for habiller, with forms such as "ahbiller", "habbiller", and "habilelr". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Haller", "habiter", "habituer", and more, 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 habiller, spelled H-A-B-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre des habits à quelqu’un, le vêtir.
- 2Donner, fournir des habits.
- 3Seoir, aller bien, en parlant des habits, des étoffes.
- 4Couvrir, envelopper.
- 5Voiler ce qui est inconvenant, inavouable.
- 6Draper, vêtir une figure, une sculpture.
- 7Se farder, se masquer.
- 8Donner un certain caractère à un personnage.
- 9Faire l’habillage d’un produit, l’empaqueter.
- 10Changer l’habillage d’un logiciel, changer l’apparence de son interface.
- 11Préparer en vue de tel ou tel usage.
- 12En parlant d'une pièce de poterie, la munir de tous ses accessoires, anses, pied, oreilles, etc.
- 13Dire des vilenies ou casser du sucre sur le dos, en parlant d'une personne.
- 14Accompagner, entourer, donner un contexte à.
- 15Mettre des habits ; se vêtir soi-même.
- 16Se vêtir, en parlant de la manière dont une personne porte ses vêtements, du goût qu’elle met dans le choix et l’arrangement de ses habits.
- 17Se pourvoir en habits, compléter sa garde-robe.
- 18Revêtir un costume qui n’est pas le sien habituellement.
- 19Se couvrir, se déguiser, se dissimuler.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahbiller,habbiller,habilelr,habiler,habillerr,habillre,habliler,haibller,hbailler,hhabiller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for habiller
Misspelling Variants of "habiller"
Frequency rank: #7,065 in French
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