habitat
French, noun
habitat is spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-T (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habitat is a French masculine noun meaning “habitat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, habitât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of habiter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Milieu naturel offrant à une espèce vivante (animale, végétale, fongique, etc.) les conditions nécessaires à…”.
What does habitat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehabitat
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of habiter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Milieu naturel offrant à une espèce vivante (animale, végétale, fongique, etc.) les conditions nécessaires à sa survie, son développement et sa reproduction. 2. Ensemble des habitations ; mode ou style d’habitation caractéristique d’une région, d’un groupe social ou d’une époque. 3. Demeure d’une personne, considérée comme lieu de vie auquel elle est attachée.
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 habitat
- habitats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to habitat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is habitat in French?
habitat appears 13 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).