Which to use
“habituée” and “habituées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,398
- “habituée” frequency rank
- #45,649
- “habituées” frequency rank
- 61047
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | habituée | habituées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de habitué. | Féminin pluriel de l’adjectif habitué. |
Same sound, different letters: habituée vs habituées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. habituée runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVV) against habituées's 9 (CVCVCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - habituée and habituées
This is the hard kind. habituée and habituées are pronounced identically (\a.bi.tɥe\) 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) - “habituée” sits inside “habituées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61047, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
habituée is recorded at frequency rank #15,398, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.bi.tɥe\. habituées is at rank #45,649, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.bi.tɥe\.
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 61047, this pair ranks #94,358 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of habituée vs habituées
Shared letters: abehitué. Private to "habituée": -. Private to "habituées": s.
"habituée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVV · "habituées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "habituée" for "habituées" ever safe?
Which is more common, "habituée" or "habituées"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "habituée" / "habituées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "habituée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "habituées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #94,358 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "habituée" and "habituées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "habillées vs habituées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #94,358 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.