habitans
\a.bi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“habitans” is uncommon French (frequency #99,173 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,173
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de habitant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-habitans · habitans · French
habitans · rank #99,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,173
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hadad
Nearest frequency peer: hadad (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « habitans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Guilbaud
Guilbaud
834 corpus weight
- gyroscopique
gyroscopique
831 corpus weight
- habitans
habitans
828 corpus weight
- hadad
hadad
827 corpus weight
- hanséatique
hanséatique
825 corpus weight
- haring
haring
823 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « habitans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | habitans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « habitans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
habitans is uncommon French at frequency #99,173 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bi.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de habitant.".
habitans doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is habitans, spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de habitant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how habitans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
LAURIER SAUVAGE D’ACADIE est le nom que les habitans des frontieres du Canada donnent à l’arbre de Cire nain de la Caroline. Voyez ARBRE DE CIRE.
Les habitans, peu sociables, sont soupçonneux, défians, un peu sauvages et parfois cruels.
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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