Obi
[ɔbi]
The verdict
“Obi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,620) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,620
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Ob.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obi · Obi · French
Obi · rank #35,620 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,620
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oak
Nearest frequency peer: oak (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Obi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Norm
Norm
64,384 corpus weight
- Noyon
Noyon
64,383 corpus weight
- oak
oak
64,382 corpus weight
- Obi
Obi
64,381 corpus weight
- oops
oops
64,380 corpus weight
- opticien
opticien
64,378 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Obi » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Obi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɔbi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Obi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Obi is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ɔbi]. Frequency #35,620 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Variante de Ob.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Obi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "ou", "or", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Obi, spelled O-B-I.
Definition
- 1Variante de Ob.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Obi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après l’Obi, nous devons nommer le Yeniseï, qui doit être considéré comme prenant sa source dans les montagnes qui sont au sud-ouest de Baïkal, dans la rivière appelée Siskit ; […].
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).