obtient
\ɔp.tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“obtient” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,553. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,553
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de obtenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obtient · obtient · French
obtient · rank #3,553 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,553
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obligations
Nearest frequency peer: obligations (-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 « obtient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- météo
météo
96,451 corpus weight
- naturelles
naturelles
96,450 corpus weight
- obligations
obligations
96,449 corpus weight
- obtient
obtient
96,448 corpus weight
- oubliez
oubliez
96,447 corpus weight
- ouvriers
ouvriers
96,446 corpus weight
What this shows « obtient » 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 | obtient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔp.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « obtient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around obtient (IPA \ɔp.tjɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,553 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de obtenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for obtient, with forms such as "botient", "obbtient", and "obitent". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "orient", "optent", "osaient", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is obtient, spelled O-B-T-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de obtenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obtient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Muni de ses précieux (faux) certificats, Batz cherche maintenant à se faire « désémigrer », aidé en cela par le procureur syndic du Département de Paris, le sieur Lhuillier dont il obtient ce qu’il veut.
La liberté véritable ne s’obtient cependant que par cette prise de conscience et par ce travail de tous les instants qui a pour objet de nous détacher, de nous « désattacher ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- botient
- obbtient
- obitent
- obteint
- obtiennt
- obtientt
- obtietn
- obtinet
- obttient
- otbient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obtient - 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 "obtient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).