obligèrent
\ɔ.bli.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“obligèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #82,292 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,292
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de obliger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obligerent · obligèrent · French
obligèrent · rank #82,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,292
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 75,470
- PHOTO-FINISH objecteur
Nearest frequency peer: objecteur (-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 “obligèrent”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nunuche
nunuche
17,714 corpus weight
- objecteur
objecteur
17,710 corpus weight
- obligèrent
obligèrent
17,709 corpus weight
- occitans
occitans
17,708 corpus weight
- OEM
OEM
17,707 corpus weight
- oligopole
oligopole
17,705 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “obligèrent” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obligèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.bli.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “obligèrent” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
obligèrent is uncommon French at frequency #82,292 among 75,470 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.bli.ʒɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de obliger.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for obligèrent, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is obligèrent, spelled O-B-L-I-G-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 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.