obliquité
French, noun/ɔ.bli.kɥi.te/
obliquité is spelled O-B-L-I-Q-U-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obliquité is a French feminine noun meaning “obliqueness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Inclinaison d’une ligne ou d’une surface sur une autre”.
What does obliquité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineobliqueness
- 2
feminineobliquity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Inclinaison d’une ligne ou d’une surface sur une autre. 2. L’angle que l’écliptique fait avec l’équateur. 3. Ce qu’il y a de contraire à la droiture, à la franchise dans sa conduite, dans ses démarches, dans ses comportements.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of obliquité
- obliquités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obliquité?
- /ɔ.bli.kɥi.te/
- \ɔ.bli.kɥi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to obliquité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is obliquité in French?
obliquité appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).