obligeait

/\ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,887

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

obligeait is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de obliger. Pronounced \ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\. Often confused with obligent and obligeant.

Key facts for obligeait
PropertyValue
Headwordobligeait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#29,887
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for obligeait is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,887 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de obliger.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for obligeait, with forms such as "boligeait", "obbligeait", and "obilgeait". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "obligent", "obligeant", "obligerait", 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 obligeait, spelled O-B-L-I-G-E-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de obliger.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: boligeait,obbligeait,obilgeait,oblgieait,obliegait,obligaeit,obligeaitt,obligeati,obligeiat,obliggeait,oblligeait,olbigeait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for obligeait

Misspelling Variants of "obligeait"

boligeait9obbligeait10obilgeait9oblgieait9obliegait9obligaeit9obligeaitt10obligeati9
Misspelling Variants of "obligeait"

Frequency rank: #29,887 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obligeait"?
"obligeait" is spelled O-B-L-I-G-E-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\.
What does "obligeait" mean?
As a verb, "obligeait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de obliger.
What words are commonly confused with "obligeait"?
"obligeait" is commonly confused with "obligent", "obligeant", "obligerait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "obligeait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "obligeait" is \ɔ.bli.ʒɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "obligeait" come from?
"obligeait" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.