obscuring
noun, verb
obscuring is a noun meaning “The process of making obscure; a concealing or darkening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of obscuring is obscurings.
What does obscuring mean?
noun
- 1
The process of making obscure; a concealing or darkening.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of obscure
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce obscuring?
Obscuring has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of obscuring
- obscurings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is obscuring?
Obscuring appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Obscuring in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | obscurecimiento |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.