habitude
^((h muet))\a.bi.tyd\
The verdict
“habitude” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,230. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,230
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition acquise par des actes réitérés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-habitude · habitude · French
habitude · rank #1,230 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,230
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH end
Nearest frequency peer: end (-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 « habitude »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coups
coups
98,774 corpus weight
- end
end
98,772 corpus weight
- habitude
habitude
98,771 corpus weight
- jacques
jacques
98,770 corpus weight
- poser
poser
98,769 corpus weight
- principal
principal
98,768 corpus weight
What this shows « habitude » 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 | habitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\a.bi.tyd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « habitude »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around habitude (IPA ^((h muet))\a.bi.tyd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,230 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for habitude, with forms such as "ahbitude", "habbitude", and "habitdue". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "habitué", "habituel", "habitués", and more, 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 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 habitude, spelled H-A-B-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Disposition acquise par des actes réitérés.
- 2Façon régulière de se comporter, d’agir, d'être, etc.
- 3Pratique sociale constante.
- 4Accès auprès de quelqu’un, fréquentation ordinaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how habitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En conservant son sang froid, on pourroit imiter l’entousiasme, si l’on s’étoit fait l’habitude d’analiser les beaux morceaux que les Poëtes lui doivent. Mais la copie seroit-elle toujours égale à l’original ?
L’Habitude est un mot précieux par son utilité, & le secret infaillible qu’il renferme de réussir en toutes choses aussi parfaitement qu’il est possible. Par l’habitude physique, on réussit dans tous les arts méchaniques, & par l’habitude morale, dans tous les arts libéraux.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahbitude
- habbitude
- habitdue
- habittude
- habitudde
- habitued
- habiutde
- habtiude
- haibtude
- hbaitude
- hhabitude
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habitude - 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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).