habitante
/ɐ.bi.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/
The verdict
“habitante” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #21,477 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #21,477
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que habita, reside ou vive em determinado lugar
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | habitante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ.bi.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “habitante” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for habitante is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.bi.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #21,477 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que habita, reside ou vive em determinado lugar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for habitante, with forms such as "ahbitante", "habbitante", and "habiatnte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "habitat", "hesitante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is habitante, spelled H-A-B-I-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que habita, reside ou vive em determinado lugar
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahbitante,habbitante,habiatnte,habitanet,habitannte,habitantte,habitatne,habitnate,habittante,habtiante,haibtante,hbaitante,hhabitante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of habitante - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “habitante”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is H-A-B-I-T-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɐ.bi.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “habitat” - see the side-by-side comparison. habitante vs habitat
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.