obligatoirement

/\ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\/ adv

Letters

15 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,755

in French word usage

Misspellings

22

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

obligatoirement is anFrenchadv. It means: D’une manière obligatoire. Pronounced \ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for obligatoirement
PropertyValue
Headwordobligatoirement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\
Letters15
Frequency rank#10,755
Misspellings tracked22
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of obligatoirement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for obligatoirement is 15 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,755 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "D’une manière obligatoire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for obligatoirement, with forms such as "boligatoirement", "obbligatoirement", and "obilgatoirement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 obligatoirement, spelled O-B-L-I-G-A-T-O-I-R-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    D’une manière obligatoire.

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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for obligatoirement

Misspelling Variants of "obligatoirement"

boligatoirement15obbligatoirement16obilgatoirement15oblgiatoirement15obliagtoirement15obligaotirement15obligatiorement15obligatoierment15
Misspelling Variants of "obligatoirement"

Frequency rank: #10,755 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obligatoirement"?
"obligatoirement" is spelled O-B-L-I-G-A-T-O-I-R-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\.
What does "obligatoirement" mean?
As an adv, "obligatoirement" means: D’une manière obligatoire.
What are common misspellings of "obligatoirement"?
Common misspellings include "boligatoirement", "obbligatoirement", "obilgatoirement", "oblgiatoirement", "obliagtoirement". The correct spelling is "obligatoirement".
How do you pronounce "obligatoirement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "obligatoirement" is \ɔ.bli.ɡa.twaʁ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "obligatoirement" come from?
"obligatoirement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.