obskure

/[ɔpsˈkuːʁə]/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#77,132

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

obskure is anGermanadj. It means: Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs obskur Pronounced [ɔpsˈkuːʁə].

Key facts for obskure
PropertyValue
Headwordobskure
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ɔpsˈkuːʁə]
Letters7
Frequency rank#77,132
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of obskure in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for obskure is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔpsˈkuːʁə]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,132 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for obskure in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 German form is obskure, spelled O-B-S-K-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  3. 3
    Nominativ Plural Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  4. 4
    Akkusativ Plural Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular Maskulinum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  6. 6
    Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  8. 8
    Nominativ Singular Neutrum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  9. 9
    Akkusativ Singular Neutrum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  10. 10
    Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
  11. 11
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs obskur

Frequency rank: #77,132 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obskure"?
"obskure" is spelled O-B-S-K-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ɔpsˈkuːʁə].
What does "obskure" mean?
As an adj, "obskure" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs obskur
How do you pronounce "obskure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "obskure" is [ɔpsˈkuːʁə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "obskure" come from?
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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.