obéissez
\ɔ.be.i.se\
The verdict
“obéissez” is uncommon French (frequency #63,966 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,966
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de obéir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obeissez · obéissez · French
obéissez · rank #63,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,966
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nénuphar
Nearest frequency peer: nénuphar (-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 « obéissez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- néerlandoph…
néerlandophones
36,038 corpus weight
- négligemment
négligemment
36,037 corpus weight
- nénuphar
nénuphar
36,036 corpus weight
- obéissez
obéissez
36,035 corpus weight
- oisillons
oisillons
36,034 corpus weight
- oliva
oliva
36,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obéissez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obéissez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.be.i.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obéissez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obéissez is uncommon French at frequency #63,966 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.be.i.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
obéissez has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is obéissez, spelled O-B-É-I-S-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de obéir.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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