Obadia

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The verdict

“Obadia” is uncommon French (frequency #99,435 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,435
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine juive séfarade.

Corpus desk

Index FR-obadia · Obadia · French

Obadia · rank #99,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,435
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH néodyme

Nearest frequency peer: néodyme (-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 “Obadia”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “Obadia” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Obadia
PropertyValue
HeadwordObadia
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#99,435
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Où “Obadia” se place dans la fréquence du français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Obadiase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « néodyme » (#99,434), « nécro » (#99,433), « Oeillet » (#99,437). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Obadia is uncommon French at frequency #99,435 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine juive séfarade.".

Zero misspellings are on record for Obadia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Obadia, spelled O-B-A-D-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille d’origine juive séfarade.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Obadia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Agnès Obadia.
  2. Pendant les dix-neuf années de ses voyages à travers les communautés juives d’Orient, Obadia rencontra plus d’une fois de tels hommes, comme ce karaïte, dans l’automne 1121, qu’il rencontra près de Tyr, quand il avait avec lui « des Israélites hommes de peu et pauvres. »

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Obadia"?
"Obadia" is spelled O-B-A-D-I-A.
What does "Obadia" mean?
As a proper noun, "Obadia" means: Nom de famille d’origine juive séfarade.
What language does "Obadia" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Obadia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ophrys#99,442Orissa#99,449niaque#99,415pachas#99,455

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list