obligées
\ɔ.bli.ʒe\
The verdict
“obligées” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,628. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,628
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de obligé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obligees · obligées · French
obligées · rank #23,628 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,628
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 75,470
- PHOTO-FINISH négociateur
Nearest frequency peer: négociateur (-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 “obligées”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nourrissons
nourrissons
76,376 corpus weight
- novices
novices
76,375 corpus weight
- négociateur
négociateur
76,374 corpus weight
- obligées
obligées
76,373 corpus weight
- oméga
oméga
76,372 corpus weight
- opéras
opéras
76,371 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “obligées” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | obligées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.bli.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “obligées” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around obligées (IPA \ɔ.bli.ʒe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,628 among 75,470 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de obligé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for obligées, with forms such as "boligées", "obbligées", and "obilgées". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "obligés", "obliger", "obligez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is obligées, spelled O-B-L-I-G-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de obligé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boligées
- obbligées
- obilgées
- oblgiées
- obligees
- obligeés
- obliggées
- obligéess
- obligése
- obliéges
- oblligées
- olbigées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obligées - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "obligées", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.