habiter

^((h muet))\a.bi.te\

/^((h muet))\a.bi.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“habiter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,969. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,969
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire sa demeure, son séjour quelque part ; y vivre d’habitude.

Corpus desk

Index FR-habiter · habiter · French

habiter · rank #7,969 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,969
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH grenade

Nearest frequency peer: grenade (-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 « habiter »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « habiter » 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).

habiter vs hâter
57% similar
habiter vs habits
71% similar
habiter vs hanter
71% similar

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

Key facts for habiter
PropertyValue
Headwordhabiter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA^((h muet))\a.bi.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,969
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « habiter »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).habiterse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « grenade » (#7,968), « Hamilton » (#7,970), « grasse » (#7,967). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « habiter » est au #7,969. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around habiter (IPA ^((h muet))\a.bi.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,969 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for habiter, with forms such as "ahbiter", "habbiter", and "habietr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hâter", "habits", "hanter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is habiter, spelled H-A-B-I-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire sa demeure, son séjour quelque part ; y vivre d’habitude.
  2. 2
    Être fortement présent dans l’esprit ou dans le cœur de (quelqu'un).
  3. 3
    Vivre habituellement en un lieu.
  4. 4
    Dans certains textes, en particulier religieux, habiter avec une femme signifie avoir des relations sexuelles avec celle-ci.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. D’ailleurs, […], il est impossible de ne pas tenir compte de ce fait que les juifs ont habité la France cinq siècles avant les Francs, les Burgondes et les Wisigoths et huit siècles avant les Normands.
  2. — La paix habite ce séjour.

Synonyms

demeurervivre

This word in other languages

inhabit(English)habitar(Español)wohnen(Deutsch)habitar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ahbiter
  • habbiter
  • habietr
  • habiterr
  • habitre
  • habitter
  • habtier
  • haibter
  • hbaiter
  • hhabiter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habiter - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ahbiter2habbiter1habietr2habiterr1habitre2habitter1habtier2haibter2
Edit distance from "habiter"

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 "habiter"?
"habiter" is spelled H-A-B-I-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\a.bi.te\.
What does "habiter" mean?
As a verb, "habiter" means: Faire sa demeure, son séjour quelque part ; y vivre d’habitude.
What words are commonly confused with "habiter"?
"habiter" is commonly confused with "hâter", "habits", "hanter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "habiter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "habiter" is ^((h muet))\a.bi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "habiter" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "habiter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

grenade#7,968Garonne#7,966imposée#7,976inquiet#7,979

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

démarrer10 variantsdéfinie10 variantslittoral10 variantsmeeting10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list