oba
\ɔ.ba\
The verdict
“oba” is uncommon French (frequency #89,978 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,978
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom d’un arbre du Gabon (Mangifera gabonensis [Aubry-Lecomte]), de la famille des térébinthacées, dont le fruit, nommé iba, est comestible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oba · oba · French
oba · rank #89,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,978
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 75,470
- PHOTO-FINISH nénés
Nearest frequency peer: nénés (-1 rank slots)
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 “oba”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- numérateur
numérateur
10,026 corpus weight
- négociez
négociez
10,025 corpus weight
- nénés
nénés
10,024 corpus weight
- oba
oba
10,023 corpus weight
- obtiendrai
obtiendrai
10,021 corpus weight
- occultés
occultés
10,020 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “oba” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ba\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oba” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
oba is uncommon French at frequency #89,978 among 75,470 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom d’un arbre du Gabon (Mangifera gabonensis [Aubry-Lecomte]), de la famille des térébinthacées, dont le fruit, nommé iba, est comestible.".
oba has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is oba, spelled O-B-A.
Definition
- 1Nom d’un arbre du Gabon (Mangifera gabonensis [Aubry-Lecomte]), de la famille des térébinthacées, dont le fruit, nommé iba, est comestible.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.