Ob
The verdict
“Ob” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #31,155 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #31,155
- frequency rank, French
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fleuve de Sibérie, qui se jette dans l’océan Arctique.
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 | Ob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #31,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ob” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Ob is 2 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #31,155 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fleuve de Sibérie, qui se jette dans l’océan Arctique.".
Ob doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "ou", "or", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Ob, spelled O-B.
Definition
- 1Fleuve de Sibérie, qui se jette dans l’océan Arctique.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Ob”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “on” - see the side-by-side comparison. Ob vs on
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French 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.