obsolète
\ɔp.sɔ.lɛt\
The verdict
“obsolète” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,354. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,354
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est plus utilisé, en parlant d’un mot, d’une locution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obsolete · obsolète · French
obsolète · rank #19,354 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,354
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH notifications
Nearest frequency peer: notifications (-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 “obsolète”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Neuville
Neuville
80,650 corpus weight
- nicotine
nicotine
80,649 corpus weight
- notificatio…
notifications
80,648 corpus weight
- obsolète
obsolète
80,647 corpus weight
- occupaient
occupaient
80,646 corpus weight
- Olympia
Olympia
80,645 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “obsolète” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | obsolète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔp.sɔ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “obsolète” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around obsolète (IPA \ɔp.sɔ.lɛt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,354 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for obsolète, with forms such as "bosolète", "obbsolète", and "oboslète". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "obsolètes", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is obsolète, spelled O-B-S-O-L-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est plus utilisé, en parlant d’un mot, d’une locution.
- 2Ancien ou suranné ; qui n’est plus utilisé, qui n’a plus cours.
- 3Peu apparent ; presque effacé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obsolète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Écornifleur » se compose du verbe « écorner » (dévaluer l’intégrité de) et du verbe obsolète « nifler », certes moins connu que son dérivé « renifler », mais de même sens.
Les entreprises, en particulier, risquent aujourd’hui de conserver une organisation obsolète si elles n’investissent pas sur la capacité de chacun à se poser comme porteur à part entière des projets qu’elles défendent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bosolète
- obbsolète
- oboslète
- obsloète
- obsolete
- obsollète
- obsoltèe
- obsolèet
- obsolètte
- obsoèlte
- obssolète
- osbolète
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obsolète - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "obsolète", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "obsolètes". View pair
- 12 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #19,354 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "O" letter cohort. O–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.