obscène
\ɔp.sɛn\
The verdict
“obscène” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,155
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui blesse ouvertement, qui heurte la décence, la pudeur ou le bon goût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obscene · obscène · French
obscène · rank #27,155 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,155
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH objectives
Nearest frequency peer: objectives (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « obscène »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- numérisation
numérisation
72,849 corpus weight
- objectives
objectives
72,847 corpus weight
- obscène
obscène
72,846 corpus weight
- obéissent
obéissent
72,845 corpus weight
- occupons
occupons
72,844 corpus weight
- octroyé
octroyé
72,843 corpus weight
What this shows « obscène » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obscène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔp.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « obscène »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around obscène (IPA \ɔp.sɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,155 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for obscène, with forms such as "boscène", "obbscène", and "obcsène". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "obsède", "obscure", "obstiné", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 obscène, spelled O-B-S-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui blesse ouvertement, qui heurte la décence, la pudeur ou le bon goût.
- 2Qui choque dans le domaine de la sexualité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obscène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus parlant peut-être : cette rémunération obscène comme disait Warren Buffet, représente les salaires de 385 ingénieurs ou de 868 salariés au minimum assurés pendant 20 ans…
La narine, toujours largement ouverte, plus obscène qu’un anus de putain, frémit à l’odeur montant de tout cela, et fait à ce visage de bête tranquille le don de son humeur du moment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boscène
- obbscène
- obcsène
- obsccène
- obscene
- obscnèe
- obscèen
- obscènne
- obsscène
- obsècne
- osbcène
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obscène - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).