obus
\ɔ.by\
The verdict
“obus” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,757. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,757
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Projectile creux, en forme de cylindre terminé par un cône, rempli de matière explosive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obus · obus · French
obus · rank #10,757 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,757
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obscur
Nearest frequency peer: obscur (-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 « obus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- néant
néant
89,247 corpus weight
- obligatoire…
obligatoirement
89,246 corpus weight
- obscur
obscur
89,245 corpus weight
- obus
obus
89,244 corpus weight
- ouvertures
ouvertures
89,243 corpus weight
- palace
palace
89,242 corpus weight
What this shows « obus » 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 | obus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.by\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « obus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around obus (IPA \ɔ.by\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,757 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for obus, with forms such as "bous", "obbus", and "obsu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "os", "oui", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is obus, spelled O-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Projectile creux, en forme de cylindre terminé par un cône, rempli de matière explosive.
- 2Partie interne de la valve de certains pneumatiques et de certaines chambres à air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bitche n'est plus qu'une vaste fournaise : le sifflement des obus, les craquements de l'incendie, l'effondrement des maisons, […], toutes les terreurs, tous les fracas emplissent l'air.
Les obus sont chargés avec une poudre spéciale appelée lydite, dont les essais ont donné des résultats terrifiants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bous
- obbus
- obsu
- obuss
- oubs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obus - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).