Which to use
“habiles” and “habillées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,375
- “habiles” frequency rank
- #31,056
- “habillées” frequency rank
- 60431
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | habiles | habillées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de habile. | Féminin pluriel de habillé. |
Where the eye mixes habiles and habillées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. habiles runs 7 letters (CVCVCVC) against habillées's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: habiles vs habillées
A purely visual mix-up. habiles (^((h muet))\a.bil\) and habillées (^((h muet))\a.bi.je\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60431, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
habiles is recorded at frequency rank #29,375, classified as anadj, pronounced ^((h muet))\a.bil\. habillées is at rank #31,056, tagged as anadj, pronounced ^((h muet))\a.bi.je\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 60431, this pair ranks #97,629 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of habiles vs habillées
Shared letters: abehils. Private to "habiles": -. Private to "habillées": é.
"habiles" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "habillées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- habiles ← ahbiles · habbiles · habiels · habiless · habilse · hablies · haibles · hbailes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "habiles" for "habillées" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "habiles" or "habillées" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "habiles" and "habillées" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "habiles" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "habillées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #97,629 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "habiles" and "habillées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habillées vs habituées". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #97,629 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.