obedient
obe·di·ent/əˈbidiənt/adjective, noun
obedient is spelled O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T, 3 syllables: obe·di·ent. The wrong spelling people search most is obediant: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Obedient is an adjective meaning “Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable”.
How many letters and syllables are in obedient?
| Letters | 8: O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: obe·di·ent |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,651st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, obediant, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell obedient?
Obedient is spelled O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for obedient in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is obedient?
Obedient appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce obedient?
- UK /əˈbiːdɪənt/
- UK /əʊˈbiːdɪənt/
- US /əˈbidiənt/
Obedient has 3 syllables, split obe·di·ent in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-obedient.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of obedient
- more obedient comparative
- most obedient superlative
- obedients plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does obedient mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable.
Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.
noun
- 1
One who obeys.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate obedient?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of obedient: obdt, obedt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Obedient in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense willing to comply with commands:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does obedient come from?
From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).