obéissaient
\ɔ.be.i.sɛ\
The verdict
“obéissaient” is uncommon French (frequency #90,981 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,981
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de obéir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obeissaient · obéissaient · French
obéissaient · rank #90,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,981
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH odorants
Nearest frequency peer: odorants (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « obéissaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ninove
Ninove
9,024 corpus weight
- niés
niés
9,023 corpus weight
- nourriront
nourriront
9,022 corpus weight
- obéissaient
obéissaient
9,020 corpus weight
- odorants
odorants
9,019 corpus weight
- officers
officers
9,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obéissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obéissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.be.i.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obéissaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obéissaient is uncommon French at frequency #90,981 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.be.i.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de obéir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for obéissaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is obéissaient, spelled O-B-É-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de obéir.
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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