obligeaient
\ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“obligeaient” is uncommon French (frequency #80,465 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,465
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de obliger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obligeaient · obligeaient · French
obligeaient · rank #80,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,465
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 75,470
- PHOTO-FINISH névralgie
Nearest frequency peer: névralgie (-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 “obligeaient”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nymphéas
nymphéas
19,539 corpus weight
- néoclassiqu…
néoclassiques
19,538 corpus weight
- névralgie
névralgie
19,537 corpus weight
- obligeaient
obligeaient
19,536 corpus weight
- ocho
ocho
19,535 corpus weight
- officient
officient
19,534 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “obligeaient” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obligeaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “obligeaient” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
obligeaient is uncommon French at frequency #80,465 among 75,470 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de obliger.".
obligeaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is obligeaient, spelled O-B-L-I-G-E-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de obliger.
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 11 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.