objet
\ɔb.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“objet” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #672 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #672
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chose tangible et visible, concrète. Chose perceptible par la vue et le toucher. Chose, dans un sens indéterminé.
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 | objet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔb.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “objet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for objet is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔb.ʒɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #672 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for objet, with forms such as "bojet", "obbjet", and "obejt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "omet", "objets", "object", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 objet, spelled O-B-J-E-T.
Definition
- 1Chose tangible et visible, concrète. Chose perceptible par la vue et le toucher. Chose, dans un sens indéterminé.
- 2Chose fabriquée par l’homme ; artéfact.
- 3Tout ce qui affecte les sens, tout ce qui intéresse les facultés de l’âme.
- 4Ce qui est pensé, par opposition à l’être pensant ou sujet.
- 5Matière à une science ou à un art.
- 6Celle, celui qui est différent de soi.
- 7S’oppose à sujet et désigne la personne ou la chose sur laquelle se porte l’action exprimée par le verbe.
- 8Tout ce qui est la cause, le sujet, le motif d’un sentiment, d’une passion, d’une action.
- 9En particulier, la personne qu’on aime.
- 10But, objectif, visée.
- 11Tout ce qui se présente à l’esprit, de tout ce qui l’occupe.
- 12Instance de classe. Un objet stocke des valeurs de données (attributs), sur lesquels travaillent les méthodes de la classe.
- 13Phénomène concret ou abstrait susceptible d’une représentation cartographique.
- 14Tout objet présent sur le terrain au cours d’une partie, incluant le but et les boules déjà jouées.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bojet,obbjet,obejt,objett,objjet,objte,ojbet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of objet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “objet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-B-J-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔb.ʒɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “omet” - see the side-by-side comparison. objet vs omet
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.