obvod

noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

obvod is aFrenchnoun. It means: Circonférence, périmètre, ou toute mesure le long de cette ligne.

Key facts for obvod
PropertyValue
Headwordobvod
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

obvod is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for obvod is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for obvod in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 obvod, spelled O-B-V-O-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Circonférence, périmètre, ou toute mesure le long de cette ligne.
  2. 2
    Circonscription (électorale), canton, subdivision administrative territoriale dans une région.
  3. 3
    Secteur d’activité d’une administration.
  4. 4
    Arrondissement ou district municipal, quartier.
  5. 5
    Circuit, assemblage fermé.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obvod"?
"obvod" is spelled O-B-V-O-D.
What does "obvod" mean?
As a noun, "obvod" means: Circonférence, périmètre, ou toute mesure le long de cette ligne.
What language does "obvod" come from?
"obvod" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.