obéissants
\ɔ.be.i.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“obéissants” is uncommon French (frequency #75,962 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,962
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de obéissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obeissants · obéissants · French
obéissants · rank #75,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,962
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obtiendras
Nearest frequency peer: obtiendras (-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 « obéissants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oblitération
oblitération
24,042 corpus weight
- obscurantis…
obscurantistes
24,041 corpus weight
- obtiendras
obtiendras
24,040 corpus weight
- obéissants
obéissants
24,039 corpus weight
- oliv
oliv
24,037 corpus weight
- ombrageux
ombrageux
24,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obéissants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obéissants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.be.i.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obéissants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obéissants is uncommon French at frequency #75,962 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.be.i.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de obéissant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for obéissants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is obéissants, spelled O-B-É-I-S-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de obéissant.
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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