obéisse
\ɔ.be.is\
The verdict
“obéisse” is uncommon French (frequency #74,239 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,239
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de obéir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obeisse · obéisse · French
obéisse · rank #74,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,239
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obscénités
Nearest frequency peer: obscénités (-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 « obéisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nuis
nuis
25,766 corpus weight
- Nyons
Nyons
25,765 corpus weight
- oblongues
oblongues
25,764 corpus weight
- obscénités
obscénités
25,763 corpus weight
- obéisse
obéisse
25,762 corpus weight
- occupante
occupante
25,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obéisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obéisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.be.is\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obéisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obéisse is uncommon French at frequency #74,239 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.be.is\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
obéisse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is obéisse, spelled O-B-É-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de obéir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de obéir.
- 3Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).