oubliette
/uːbliˈɛt/
"oubliette" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oubliette” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oubliette · oubliette · English
oubliette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oubliette |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /uːbliˈɛt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oubliette” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oubliette is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /uːbliˈɛt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.".
Zero misspellings are on record for oubliette in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”). The correct English form is oubliette, spelled O-U-B-L-I-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
Etymology
Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.