how to pronounce habileté

/a.bil.te/

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habileté is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of habileté in a speech by a native speaker of standard french:

“… apparaître comme une habileté un peu …”

meanings of habileté

noun:

  1. Skill, capacity to do a task well, not necessarily manual work.
  2. Capacity of doing something well with hands; dexterity.

habileté frequency in french - C2 level of CEFR

the word habileté occurs in french on average 4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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