obligatoirement
\ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“obligatoirement” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,755. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,755
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière obligatoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obligatoirement · obligatoirement · French
obligatoirement · rank #10,755 · 22 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,755
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH néant
Nearest frequency peer: néant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « obligatoirement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Neil
Neil
89,249 corpus weight
- notation
notation
89,248 corpus weight
- néant
néant
89,247 corpus weight
- obligatoire…
obligatoirement
89,246 corpus weight
- obscur
obscur
89,245 corpus weight
- obus
obus
89,244 corpus weight
What this shows « obligatoirement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obligatoirement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #10,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « obligatoirement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around obligatoirement (IPA \ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #10,755 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière obligatoire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for obligatoirement, with forms such as "boligatoirement", "obbligatoirement", and "obilgatoirement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is obligatoirement, spelled O-B-L-I-G-A-T-O-I-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière obligatoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obligatoirement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le libéralisme et l’expérimentation sexuelle ne sont que la partie la plus distrayante d'une transformation mentale plus vaste. Sans être obligatoirement la plus importante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boligatoirement
- obbligatoirement
- obilgatoirement
- oblgiatoirement
- obliagtoirement
- obligaotirement
- obligatiorement
- obligatoierment
- obligatoireemnt
- obligatoiremennt
- obligatoirementt
- obligatoiremetn
- obligatoiremment
- obligatoiremnet
- obligatoirmeent
- obligatoirrement
- obligatoriement
- obligattoirement
- obliggatoirement
- obligtaoirement
- oblligatoirement
- olbigatoirement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obligatoirement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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