habitué

\a.bi.tɥe\

/\a.bi.tɥe\/ adj

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The verdict

“habitué” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,706
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a l’habitude.

Corpus desk

Index FR-habitue · habitué · French

habitué · rank #6,706 · 10 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,706
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH grade

Nearest frequency peer: grade (-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 « habitué »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « habitué » 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).

habitué vs habituel
75% similar
habitué vs habitués
88% similar
habitué vs habituer
75% similar

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

Key facts for habitué
PropertyValue
Headwordhabitué
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.bi.tɥe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,706
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « habitué »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).habituése 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 « grade » (#6,705), « Hervé » (#6,707), « gardiens » (#6,704). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « habitué » est au #6,706. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around habitué (IPA \a.bi.tɥe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,706 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a l’habitude.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for habitué, with forms such as "ahbitué", "habbitué", and "habittué". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "habituel", "habitués", "habituer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is habitué, spelled H-A-B-I-T-U-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a l’habitude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Un enfant habitué à rire et à jouer.

This word in other languages

regular(English)acostumbrado(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ahbitué
  • habbitué
  • habittué
  • habitue
  • habitéu
  • habiuté
  • habtiué
  • haibtué
  • hbaitué
  • hhabitué

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habitué - 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.

ahbitué2habbitué1habittué1habitue1habitéu2habiuté2habtiué2haibtué2
Edit distance from "habitué"

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 "habitué"?
"habitué" is spelled H-A-B-I-T-U-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bi.tɥe\.
What does "habitué" mean?
As an adjective, "habitué" means: Qui a l’habitude.
What words are commonly confused with "habitué"?
"habitué" is commonly confused with "habituel", "habitués", "habituer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "habitué"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "habitué" is \a.bi.tɥe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "habitué" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

mettons#6,715obligée#6,720ouvrent#6,724Pauline#6,727

Similar misspelling depth

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

créant10 variantsopposant10 variantsbonhomme10 variantssoutenue10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list