habitable

\a.bi.tabl\

/\a.bi.tabl\/ adj

The verdict

“habitable” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,620. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,620
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être habité ; où l'on peut habiter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-habitable · habitable · French

habitable · rank #24,620 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,620
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH généralise

Nearest frequency peer: généralise (-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 « habitable »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « habitable » 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).

habitable vs habitacle
89% similar
habitable vs habitante
78% similar
habitable vs habitables
90% similar

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

Key facts for habitable
PropertyValue
Headwordhabitable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.bi.tabl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#24,620
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « habitable »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).habitablese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « généralise » (#24,619), « habitaient » (#24,621), « gué » (#24,618). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « habitable » est au #24,620. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around habitable (IPA \a.bi.tabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,620 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui peut être habité ; où l'on peut habiter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for habitable, with forms such as "ahbitable", "habbitable", and "habiatble". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "habitacle", "habitante", "habitables", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is habitable, spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui peut être habité ; où l'on peut habiter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les archers entrèrent dans le corps de bâtiment qui leur paraissait le plus habitable […].
  2. Mais tous ses soins furent pour le salon. Elle réussit presque à en faire un lieu habitable. Il était garni d’un meuble de velours jaunâtre, à fleurs satinées. Au milieu se trouvait un guéridon à tablette de marbre ; des consoles, surmontées de glaces, s’appuyaient aux deux bouts de la pièce. Il y avait même un tapis qui ne couvrait que le milieu du parqu…

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ahbitable
  • habbitable
  • habiatble
  • habitabble
  • habitabel
  • habitablle
  • habitalbe
  • habitbale
  • habittable
  • habtiable
  • haibtable
  • hbaitable
  • hhabitable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habitable - 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.

ahbitable2habbitable1habiatble2habitabble1habitabel2habitablle1habitalbe2habitbale2
Edit distance from "habitable"

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 "habitable"?
"habitable" is spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bi.tabl\.
What does "habitable" mean?
As an adjective, "habitable" means: Qui peut être habité ; où l'on peut habiter.
What words are commonly confused with "habitable"?
"habitable" is commonly confused with "habitacle", "habitante", "habitables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "habitable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "habitable" is \a.bi.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "habitable" come from?
"habitable" 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 "habitable", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list