Which to use
“habillée” and “habillées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,609
- “habillée” frequency rank
- #31,056
- “habillées” frequency rank
- 44665
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | habillée | habillées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de habillé. | Féminin pluriel de habillé. |
Same sound, different letters: habillée vs habillées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. habillée runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVV) against habillées's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - habillée and habillées
This is the hard kind. habillée and habillées are pronounced identically (^((h muet))\a.bi.je\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “habillée” sits inside “habillées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44665, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
habillée is recorded at frequency rank #13,609, classified as anadj, pronounced ^((h muet))\a.bi.je\. 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 44665, this pair ranks #208,742 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of habillée vs habillées
Shared letters: abehilé. Private to "habillée": -. Private to "habillées": s.
"habillée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV · "habillées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "habillée" for "habillées" ever safe?
Which is more common, "habillée" or "habillées"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "habillée" / "habillées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "habillée" 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 #208,742 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "habillée" and "habillées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habillées vs habituées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #208,742 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.