oblate
\ɔ.blat\
The verdict
“oblate” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la forme d’un sphéroïde dont l’axe secondaire est choisi comme axe de rotation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oblate · oblate · French
oblate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | oblate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.blat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
oblate is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.blat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for oblate in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is oblate, spelled O-B-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a la forme d’un sphéroïde dont l’axe secondaire est choisi comme axe de rotation.
- 2De la forme d’une sphère écrasée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oblate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Déformation oblate.
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.