observa
\ob.sɛʁ.va\
The verdict
“observa” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,453
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de observer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-observa · observa · French
observa · rank #38,453 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,453
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH négligés
Nearest frequency peer: négligés (-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 « observa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- noz
noz
61,551 corpus weight
- nuitées
nuitées
61,550 corpus weight
- négligés
négligés
61,549 corpus weight
- observa
observa
61,548 corpus weight
- obtiendrez
obtiendrez
61,547 corpus weight
- obtus
obtus
61,546 corpus weight
What this shows « observa » 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 | observa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ob.sɛʁ.va\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « observa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around observa (IPA \ob.sɛʁ.va\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,453 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de observer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for observa, with forms such as "boserva", "obbserva", and "obesrva". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "osera", "observe", "observer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is observa, spelled O-B-S-E-R-V-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de observer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how observa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Elles feront un procès-verbal, » ajoute Bossuet, en regardant, comme pour les pressentir, la mère Agnès et la sœur Sainte-Thérèse ? Péréfixe rappelant, à ce propos, les cris, les pleurs, les lamentations qu’on avait vus, à Port-Royal, le 26 août de l’année précédente, « Il faut les excuser, monseigneur (observa la mère Agnès), ce sont de pauvres filles…
Il humecta une main-éponge, se baigna le visage, et s’observa un instant, dans la glace.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boserva
- obbserva
- obesrva
- obserav
- obserrva
- observva
- obsevra
- obsreva
- obsserva
- osberva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of observa - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).