obscurecer
Spanish, noun/obskuɾeˈθeɾ/
obscurecer is spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-E-C-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written Spanish, the 234,430th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obscurecer is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “dated form of oscurecer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does obscurecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
dateddated form of oscurecer
noun
- 1
datedmasculinedated form of oscurecer
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante anticuada de oscurecer.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of obscurecer
- obscurezco first-person present singular
- obscurecí first-person preterite singular
- obscurecido participle past
- c-zc alternation
- obscureciendo gerund
- obscurecida feminine participle past
- obscurecidos masculine participle past
- obscurecidas feminine participle past
- obscureces indicative informal present
- obscurecés indicative informal present
- obscurece indicative present singular
- obscurecemos first-person indicative plural
- obscurecéis indicative plural present
- obscurecen indicative plural present
- obscurecía first-person imperfect indicative
- obscurecías imperfect indicative second-person
- obscurecíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- obscurecíais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obscurecer?
- /obskuɾeˈθeɾ/
- [oβ̞s.ku.ɾeˈθeɾ]
- /obskuɾeˈseɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to obscurecer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is obscurecer in Spanish?
obscurecer appears about once in every 44 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).