habitéevshabitezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#18,214
“habitée” frequency rank
#19,850
“habitez” frequency rank
38064
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature habitée habitez
Definition Féminin singulier de habité. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de habiter.

Same sound, different letters: habitée vs habitez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. habitée (CVCVCVV) and habitez (CVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
habitée
7 ch
habitez

Ear matches; page differs - habitée and habitez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: habitée and habitez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.bi.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38064, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

habitée is recorded at frequency rank #18,214, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.bi.te\. habitez is at rank #19,850, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.bi.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 38064, this pair ranks #257,928 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of habitée vs habitez

Shared letters: abehit. Private to "habitée": é. Private to "habitez": z.

"habitée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "habitez" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • habitezahbitez · habbitez · habietz · habitezz · habittez · habitze · habtiez · haibtez

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "habitée" and "habitez" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "habitée" is an adjective and "habitez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "habitée" or "habitez"?
"habitée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,214 in our French list, against #19,850 for "habitez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "habitée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "habitez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #257,928 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "habitée" and "habitez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habillez vs habitez". 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 #257,928 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