oblats
\ɔ.bla\
The verdict
“oblats” is uncommon French (frequency #66,953 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,953
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de oblat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oblats · oblats · French
oblats · rank #66,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,953
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 75,470
- PHOTO-FINISH NVA
Nearest frequency peer: NVA (-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 “oblats”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nourrisse
nourrisse
33,051 corpus weight
- NVA
NVA
33,049 corpus weight
- oblats
oblats
33,048 corpus weight
- obéissait
obéissait
33,047 corpus weight
- octane
octane
33,046 corpus weight
- Odet
Odet
33,045 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “oblats” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oblats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.bla\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oblats” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
oblats is uncommon French at frequency #66,953 among 75,470 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.bla\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de oblat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oblats in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 oblats, spelled O-B-L-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de oblat.
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 6 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.