obélisques
\ɔ.be.lisk\
The verdict
“obélisques” is uncommon French (frequency #76,844 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,844
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de obélisque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obelisques · obélisques · French
obélisques · rank #76,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,844
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 75,470
- PHOTO-FINISH oberlin
Nearest frequency peer: oberlin (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “obélisques”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- négligente
négligente
23,160 corpus weight
- oat
oat
23,159 corpus weight
- oberlin
oberlin
23,158 corpus weight
- obélisques
obélisques
23,157 corpus weight
- Oddo
Oddo
23,156 corpus weight
- Odell
Odell
23,155 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “obélisques” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obélisques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.be.lisk\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “obélisques” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
obélisques is uncommon French at frequency #76,844 among 75,470 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.be.lisk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de obélisque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for obélisques in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is obélisques, spelled O-B-É-L-I-S-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de obélisque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obélisques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'Cherchez à prononcer entre celui qui a gravé des canards sur les obélisques égyptiens et celui qui a bostonné pendant vingt ans avec du Bousquet, monsieur de Valois, mademoiselle Cormon, le Président du Tribunal, le Procureur du Roi, l’abbé de Sponde, madame Granson, e tutti quanti ? — (Honoré de Balzac, La Vieille fille, 1844)
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.