Which to use
“habileté” and “habiletés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,725
- “habileté” frequency rank
- #32,428
- “habiletés” frequency rank
- 50153
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | habileté | habiletés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Facilité, disposition, qualité qui rend propre à faire certaines choses, à réussir dans certaines actions, en particulier en utilisant ses mains. | Pluriel de habileté. |
Same sound, different letters: habileté vs habiletés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. habileté runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against habiletés's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - habileté and habiletés
This is the hard kind. habileté and habiletés are pronounced identically (\a.bil.te\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “habileté” sits inside “habiletés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50153, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
habileté is recorded at frequency rank #17,725, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.bil.te\. habiletés is at rank #32,428, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.bil.te\.
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 50153, this pair ranks #164,871 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of habileté vs habiletés
Shared letters: abehilté. Private to "habileté": -. Private to "habiletés": s.
"habileté" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "habiletés" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "habileté" and "habiletés" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "habileté" vs "habiletés" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "habileté" / "habiletés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "habileté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "habiletés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #164,871 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "habileté" and "habiletés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habiletés vs habilitée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #164,871 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.