oblitération
\ɔ.bli.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“oblitération” is uncommon French (frequency #75,959 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,959
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’oblitérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obliteration · oblitération · French
oblitération · rank #75,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,959
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH objectiver
Nearest frequency peer: objectiver (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « oblitération »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- néocolonial…
néocolonialisme
24,045 corpus weight
- obey
obey
24,044 corpus weight
- objectiver
objectiver
24,043 corpus weight
- oblitération
oblitération
24,042 corpus weight
- obscurantis…
obscurantistes
24,041 corpus weight
- obtiendras
obtiendras
24,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oblitération » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oblitération |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.bli.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #75,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oblitération » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oblitération is uncommon French at frequency #75,959 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.bli.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for oblitération in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is oblitération, spelled O-B-L-I-T-É-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’oblitérer.
- 2État de ce qui est oblitéré.
- 3Empreinte d’un cachet qui a servi à oblitérer un timbre.
- 4Effacement par usure ou par recouverture.
- 5Effacement, suppression.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oblitération appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’oblitération d’un timbre.
Dès la création de la machine à affranchir de Daguin, en 1882, l’oblitération des timbres commence à s’automatiser.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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