habilléesvshabillerWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: habillées is a adjective, habiller is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“habillées” is an adjective and “habiller” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,056
“habillées” frequency rank
#7,065
“habiller” frequency rank
38121
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature habillées habiller
Definition Féminin pluriel de habillé. Mettre des habits à quelqu’un, le vêtir.

Same sound, different letters: habillées vs habiller

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. habillées runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVVC) against habiller's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
habillées
8 ch
habiller

Ear matches; page differs - habillées and habiller

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: habillées and habiller carry the same recorded pronunciation, ^((h muet))\a.bi.je\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38121, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

habillées is recorded at frequency rank #31,056, classified as anadj, pronounced ^((h muet))\a.bi.je\. habiller is at rank #7,065, tagged as averb, 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 38121, this pair ranks #257,510 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of habillées vs habiller

Shared letters: abehil. Private to "habillées": . Private to "habiller": r.

"habillées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC  ·  "habiller" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • habillerahbiller · habbiller · habilelr · habiler · habillerr · habillre · habliler · haibller

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "habillées" and "habiller" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "habillées" is an adjective and "habiller" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "habillées" or "habiller"?
"habiller" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,065 in our French list, against #31,056 for "habillées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "habillées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "habiller" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #257,510 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "habillées" and "habiller" 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 #257,510 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list