obligé
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,780
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
obligé is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est d’usage, dont on ne peut guère se dispenser ; obligatoire. It ranks #1,780 in French word frequency. Often confused with olive and oublie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obligé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for obligé is 6 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #1,780 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for obligé, with forms such as "boligé", "obbligé", and "obilgé". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "olive", "oublie", "online", and more, 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 obligé, spelled O-B-L-I-G-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’usage, dont on ne peut guère se dispenser ; obligatoire.
- 2Redevable.
- 3Contraint.
- 4Qualifie la partie qu'on ne pourrait retrancher sans gâter l'harmonie et surtout sans détruire le chant.
- 5Qualifie un récitatif accompagné et coupé par les instruments ; par opposition à celui qui n'est accompagné que de simples accords de piano et de basse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boligé,obbligé,obilgé,oblgié,oblige,obliggé,obliég,oblligé,olbigé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for obligé
Misspelling Variants of "obligé"
Frequency rank: #1,780 in French
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Nearby French words
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