obligeance
French, noun/ɔ.bli.ʒɑ̃s/
obligeance is spelled O-B-L-I-G-E-A-N-C-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 60,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obligeance is a French feminine noun meaning “obligingness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposition à se montrer obligeant, serviable”.
What does obligeance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineobligingness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Disposition à se montrer obligeant, serviable.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of obligeance
- obligeances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obligeance?
- /ɔ.bli.ʒɑ̃s/
- \ɔ.bli.ʒɑ̃s\
- [ɔ.bli.ʒɑ̃s]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is obligeance in French?
obligeance appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).