obligation
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,687
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
obligation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lien moral qui impose quelque devoir concernant la religion, la morale ou la vie civile. Pronounced \ɔ.bli.ɡa.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,687 in French word frequency. Often confused with obligations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obligation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.bli.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for obligation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.bli.ɡa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,687 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for obligation, with forms such as "boligation", "obbligation", and "obilgation". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "obligations", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is obligation, spelled O-B-L-I-G-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lien moral qui impose quelque devoir concernant la religion, la morale ou la vie civile.
- 2Lien de droit qui oblige à donner, à faire ou à ne pas faire une chose.
- 3Acte, fait par-devant notaire ou sous seing privé, par lequel on s’oblige à payer une certaine somme, à donner ou à faire telle chose dans un temps fixé.
- 4Titres productifs d’intérêt et remboursables dans un temps limité, que le gouvernement, des compagnies, des villes émettent pour se procurer de l’argent.
- 5Lien de reconnaissance envers les personnes qui nous ont rendu des services plus ou moins importants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boligation,obbligation,obilgation,oblgiation,obliagtion,obligaiton,obligatino,obligationn,obligatoin,obligattion,obliggation,obligtaion,oblligation,olbigation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for obligation
Misspelling Variants of "obligation"
Frequency rank: #2,687 in French
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