habit
French, noun/a.bi/
habit is spelled H-A-B-I-T (5 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written French, the 12,326th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habit is a French masculine noun meaning “article of clothing, garment, dress-coat, evening dress, tails, full dress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tout ce qui est fait pour couvrir le corps, excepté le linge, la coiffure et la chaussure”.
What does habit mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinearticle of clothing, garment, dress-coat, evening dress, tails, full dress
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tout ce qui est fait pour couvrir le corps, excepté le linge, la coiffure et la chaussure. 2. Les différentes parties des vêtements de dessus des hommes ; costume. 3. Partie de l’habillement de cérémonie qui est ouvert par-devant et qui a des pans par-derrière ; frac. 4. Costume des religieux et des religieuses.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of habit
- habits plural
- ^((h muet))\a.bi\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce habit?
- /a.bi/
- ^((h muet))\a.bi\
- [œ̃.na.bi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to habit
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is habit in French?
habit appears 4.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).