obituaire

/\ɔ.bi.tɥɛʁ\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

obituaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif au décès. Pronounced \ɔ.bi.tɥɛʁ\.

Key facts for obituaire
PropertyValue
Headwordobituaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɔ.bi.tɥɛʁ\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

obituaire 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 obituaire is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.bi.tɥɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Relatif au décès.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for obituaire 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 obituaire, spelled O-B-I-T-U-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Relatif au décès.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obituaire"?
"obituaire" is spelled O-B-I-T-U-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.bi.tɥɛʁ\.
What does "obituaire" mean?
As an adj, "obituaire" means: Relatif au décès.
How do you pronounce "obituaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "obituaire" is \ɔ.bi.tɥɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "obituaire" come from?
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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.