maison d’habitation
The verdict
“maison d’habitation” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maison exclusivement affectée au logement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maison-d-habitation · maison d’habitation · French
maison d’habitation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maison d’habitation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maison d’habitation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maison d’habitation is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maison exclusivement affectée au logement.".
maison d’habitation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 maison d’habitation, spelled M-A-I-S-O-N- -D-’-H-A-B-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Maison exclusivement affectée au logement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maison d’habitation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous le ciel pâlissant, les bâtiments de la Borderie sommeillaient encore, à demi sombres, trois longs bâtiments aux trois bords de la vaste cour carrée, la bergerie au fond, les granges à droite, la vacherie, l’écurie et la maison d’habitation à gauche.
Le 28 mai, un incendie a détruit presque complètement le village de Clerlande, situé à environ 5 kilomètres de Riom. Cent bâtiments, dont trente maisons d'habitation, le reste en granges, écuries, étables, etc., ont été consumés.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.