obsolètes
\ɔp.sɔ.lɛt\
The verdict
“obsolètes” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,460. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,460
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de obsolète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obsoletes · obsolètes · French
obsolètes · rank #26,460 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,460
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH néolithique
Nearest frequency peer: néolithique (-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 « obsolètes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- noue
noue
73,544 corpus weight
- nécessités
nécessités
73,543 corpus weight
- néolithique
néolithique
73,542 corpus weight
- obsolètes
obsolètes
73,541 corpus weight
- oserais
oserais
73,539 corpus weight
- package
package
73,538 corpus weight
What this shows « obsolètes » 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 | obsolètes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔp.sɔ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « obsolètes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around obsolètes (IPA \ɔp.sɔ.lɛt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,460 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de obsolète.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for obsolètes, with forms such as "bosolètes", "obbsolètes", and "oboslètes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "obsolète", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is obsolètes, spelled O-B-S-O-L-È-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de obsolète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obsolètes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A peine maîtrisions-nous correctement une méthode, que les précédentes devenaient obsolètes. On updatait, disait-on. Nous passions notre temps, qui n'était plus libre, dans de belles salles de conférences ou de grands restaurants avec des spécialistes du management.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bosolètes
- obbsolètes
- oboslètes
- obsloètes
- obsoletes
- obsollètes
- obsoltèes
- obsolèets
- obsolètess
- obsolètse
- obsolèttes
- obsoèltes
- obssolètes
- osbolètes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obsolètes - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).