observatoire
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,793
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
observatoire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Édifice construit de façon à pouvoir observer les astres et leurs mouvements. Pronounced \ɔp.sɛʁ.va.twaʁ\. It ranks #5,793 in French word frequency. Often confused with observatoires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | observatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.sɛʁ.va.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for observatoire is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔp.sɛʁ.va.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,793 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for observatoire, with forms such as "boservatoire", "obbservatoire", and "obesrvatoire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "observatoires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is observatoire, spelled O-B-S-E-R-V-A-T-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Édifice construit de façon à pouvoir observer les astres et leurs mouvements.
- 2Lieu d’où l’on peut observer, surveiller l’ennemi, d’un endroit aménagé à cet effet.
- 3Regroupement de chercheurs étudiant un domaine social en particulier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boservatoire,obbservatoire,obesrvatoire,obseravtoire,obserrvatoire,observaotire,observatiore,observatoier,observatoirre,observatorie,observattoire,observtaoire,observvatoire,obsevratoire,obsrevatoire,obsservatoire,osbervatoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for observatoire
Misspelling Variants of "observatoire"
Frequency rank: #5,793 in French
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