obligeant
\ɔ.bli.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“obligeant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,524. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,524
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime à obliger, à faire plaisir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obligeant · obligeant · French
obligeant · rank #14,524 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,524
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offices
Nearest frequency peer: offices (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « obligeant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ménager
ménager
85,481 corpus weight
- nappe
nappe
85,480 corpus weight
- obligeant
obligeant
85,477 corpus weight
- offices
offices
85,476 corpus weight
- oracle
oracle
85,475 corpus weight
- otto
otto
85,474 corpus weight
What this shows « obligeant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obligeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.bli.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « obligeant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around obligeant (IPA \ɔ.bli.ʒɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,524 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for obligeant, with forms such as "boligeant", "obbligeant", and "obilgeant". 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 also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "obligent", "obligerait", "obligea", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is obligeant, spelled O-B-L-I-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui aime à obliger, à faire plaisir.
- 2Paroles et actes qui dénotent un désir d’obliger, de faire plaisir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obligeant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un homme fort obligeant, extrêmement obligeant, tout à fait obligeant.
[Il] était de ces gens que l'on appelle "bons garçons" ; de ces gens qui passent pour obligeants parce qu'ils aiment à se mêler, à se fourrer dans la vie, dans les affaires d'autrui.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boligeant
- obbligeant
- obilgeant
- oblgieant
- obliegant
- obligaent
- obligeannt
- obligeantt
- obligeatn
- obligenat
- obliggeant
- oblligeant
- olbigeant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obligeant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).