pièce d’habitation
The verdict
“pièce 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’une maison où l’on se tient pour y vivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piece-d-habitation · pièce d’habitation · French
pièce d’habitation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pièce d’habitation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pièce d’habitation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pièce d’habitation is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie d’une maison où l’on se tient pour y vivre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pièce d’habitation, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pièce d’habitation, spelled P-I-È-C-E- -D-’-H-A-B-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partie d’une maison où l’on se tient pour y vivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pièce d’habitation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sauf la cuisine, et une grande salle à manger dont les deux portes-fenêtres donnaient sur le jardin, les pièces d’habitation, le salon et les chambres à coucher étaient au premier.
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.