obliging
/əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
"obliging" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“obliging” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,663
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Happy and ready to do favours for others.
Corpus desk
Index EN-obliging · obliging · English
obliging · rank #46,663 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,663
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH obverse
Nearest frequency peer: obverse (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “obliging”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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53,343 corpus weight
- notional
notional
53,342 corpus weight
- obliging
obliging
53,338 corpus weight
- obverse
obverse
53,336 corpus weight
- offing
offing
53,334 corpus weight
- offstage
offstage
53,333 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “obliging” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obliging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “obliging” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around obliging (IPA /əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,663 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Happy and ready to do favours for others.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for obliging, with forms such as "boliging", "obbliging", and "obilging". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is obliging, spelled O-B-L-I-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Happy and ready to do favours for others.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boliging
- obbliging
- obilging
- oblgiing
- obligging
- obligign
- obligingg
- obliginng
- oblignig
- obliigng
- oblliging
- olbiging
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obliging - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "obliging", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 12 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #46,663 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "O" letter cohort. O–Z browse
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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.