habitants
^((h muet))\a.bi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“habitants” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #982. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #982
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de habitant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-habitants · habitants · French
habitants · rank #982 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #982
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH grosse
Nearest frequency peer: grosse (-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 « habitants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- films
films
99,021 corpus weight
- grosse
grosse
99,020 corpus weight
- habitants
habitants
99,019 corpus weight
- Michel
Michel
99,018 corpus weight
- montrer
montrer
99,017 corpus weight
- physique
physique
99,016 corpus weight
What this shows « habitants » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | habitants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\a.bi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « habitants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around habitants (IPA ^((h muet))\a.bi.tɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #982 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de habitant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for habitants, with forms such as "ahbitants", "habbitants", and "habiatnts". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "habitat", "habitent", "habitats", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is habitants, spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de habitant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how habitants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or si un toponyme doit permettre d’identifier très précisément un détail géographique localisé, il n’a pas été attribué par l’homme de façon arbitraire, mais dans un souci de description du paysage et d’évocation des activités que les habitants y exerçaient.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahbitants
- habbitants
- habiatnts
- habitannts
- habitanst
- habitantss
- habitantts
- habitatns
- habitnats
- habittants
- habtiants
- haibtants
- hbaitants
- hhabitants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habitants - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).