Which to use
“habillent” and “habilles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,376
- “habillent” frequency rank
- #42,917
- “habilles” frequency rank
- 72293
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | habillent | habilles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de habiller. | Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de habiller. |
Same sound, different letters: habillent vs habilles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. habillent runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVCC) against habilles's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: habillent vs habilles
This is the hard kind. habillent and habilles are pronounced identically (\a.bij\) and both work as averb. 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72293, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
habillent is recorded at frequency rank #29,376, classified as averb, pronounced \a.bij\. habilles is at rank #42,917, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.bij\.
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 72293, this pair ranks #44,499 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of habillent vs habilles
Shared letters: abehil. Private to "habillent": nt. Private to "habilles": s.
"habillent" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC · "habilles" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "habillent" and "habilles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "habillent" or "habilles" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "habillent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "habilles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #44,499 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "habillent" and "habilles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habilles vs habillez". 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 #44,499 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.