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obnubilé

French, verb

obnubilé is spelled O-B-N-U-B-I-L-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obnubilé is a French verb meaning “past participle of obnubiler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, obnubile is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.

What does obnubilé mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of obnubiler

verb

as obnubile
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Obsédé, qui ne peut s’ôter une idée de l’esprit.

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 obnubilé

  • obnubilée feminine
  • obnubilés masculine plural
  • obnubilées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to obnubilé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is obnubilé in French?

obnubilé appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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