obligés
\ɔ.bli.ʒe\
The verdict
“obligés” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,792
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de obligé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obliges · obligés · French
obligés · rank #5,792 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,792
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH numériques
Nearest frequency peer: numériques (-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 « obligés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- méritent
méritent
94,213 corpus weight
- nombres
nombres
94,212 corpus weight
- numériques
numériques
94,210 corpus weight
- obligés
obligés
94,209 corpus weight
- observatoire
observatoire
94,208 corpus weight
- pareille
pareille
94,206 corpus weight
What this shows « obligés » 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 | obligés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.bli.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « obligés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around obligés (IPA \ɔ.bli.ʒe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,792 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de obligé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for obligés, with forms such as "boligés", "obbligés", and "obilgés". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "olives", "oubliés", "obligez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is obligés, spelled O-B-L-I-G-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de obligé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obligés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lesdites deux paroisses exposent encore que, n’ayant ni prairies ni pâturages assez considérables pour nourrir leurs bestiaux, [ils] sont obligés d’aller prendre leurs foins à deux lieues, les payer très cher et encore 3 livres de taille par chaque arpent qu’ils déblavent, même la taille pour la corvée, ce qui leur double leur taille ou à peu de chose près.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boligés
- obbligés
- obilgés
- oblgiés
- obliges
- obliggés
- obligsé
- obligéss
- obliégs
- oblligés
- olbigés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obligés - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "obligés", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).