obéir
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,367
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
obéir is aFrenchverb. It means: Se soumettre à une demande, une règle ou une obligation d’une personne ; exécuter un ordre donné. Pronounced \ɔ.be.iʁ\. Often confused with Obi and oeil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obéir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.be.iʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for obéir is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.be.iʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,367 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for obéir, with forms such as "boéir", "obbéir", and "obeir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Obi", "oeil", "oser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is obéir, spelled O-B-É-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se soumettre à une demande, une règle ou une obligation d’une personne ; exécuter un ordre donné.
- 2Céder à.
- 3Être soumis à ; subir l’action de, en parlant des choses.
- 4Répondre à la sollicitation.
- 5Être soumis à l’autorité d’un prince, d’un empire.
- 6Prendre la direction donnée, en parlant de navires, de véhicules.
- 7Se laisser gouverner, manier aisément, en parlant d’un animal.
- 8Obéir à soi-même.
- 9Être écouté par quelqu’un qui répond à la demande formulée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boéir,obbéir,obeir,obiér,obéirr,obéri,oébir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for obéir
Misspelling Variants of "obéir"
Frequency rank: #10,367 in French
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