Which to use
“habilité” is a noun and “habilitée” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #23,883
- “habilité” frequency rank
- #43,970
- “habilitée” frequency rank
- 67853
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | habilité | habilitée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Résultat de l’habilitation, aptitude. | Participe passé féminin singulier de habiliter. |
Same sound, different letters: habilité vs habilitée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. habilité runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against habilitée's 9 (CVCVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - habilité and habilitée
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: habilité and habilitée carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.bi.li.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “habilité” sits inside “habilitée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67853, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
habilité is recorded at frequency rank #23,883, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.bi.li.te\. habilitée is at rank #43,970, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.bi.li.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 67853, this pair ranks #61,653 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of habilité vs habilitée
Shared letters: abhilté. Private to "habilité": -. Private to "habilitée": e.
"habilité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "habilitée" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "habilité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "habilitée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #61,653 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "habilité" and "habilitée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habilitée vs habilités". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #61,653 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.