Which to use
“habilité” and “habilités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,883
- “habilité” frequency rank
- #36,425
- “habilités” frequency rank
- 60308
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | habilité | habilités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Résultat de l’habilitation, aptitude. | Pluriel de habilité. |
Same sound, different letters: habilité vs habilités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. habilité runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against habilités's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: habilité vs habilités
This is the hard kind. habilité and habilités are pronounced identically (\a.bi.li.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) - “habilité” sits inside “habilités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60308, 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\. habilités is at rank #36,425, tagged as anoun, 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 60308, this pair ranks #98,288 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of habilité vs habilités
Shared letters: abhilté. Private to "habilité": -. Private to "habilités": s.
"habilité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "habilités" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "habilité" and "habilités" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "habilité" or "habilités"?
After this comparison
"habilité" and "habilités" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "habilité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "habilités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #98,288 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "habilité" and "habilités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habilitée vs habilités". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #98,288 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.