obsession
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,206
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
obsession is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de celui qui obsède quelqu’un, qui est tellement assidu auprès de lui, que d’autres personnes ne peuvent en approcher. Pronounced \ɔp.se.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #9,206 in French word frequency. Often confused with obsessions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obsession |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.se.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for obsession is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔp.se.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,206 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for obsession, with forms such as "bosession", "obbsession", and "obesssion". 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, "obsessions", 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 obsession, spelled O-B-S-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de celui qui obsède quelqu’un, qui est tellement assidu auprès de lui, que d’autres personnes ne peuvent en approcher.
- 2État psychique consistant dans la présence à l’esprit d’une préoccupation ou d’une représentation, son ou image, que la volonté ne parvient pas à écarter.
- 3Pensée négative inspirée par le diable ou ses démons, dans le but de couper les hommes de Dieu.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bosession,obbsession,obesssion,obsesion,obsesison,obsessino,obsessionn,obsessoin,obssesion,obssession,osbession
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for obsession
Misspelling Variants of "obsession"
Frequency rank: #9,206 in French
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