obscurantiste
\ɔp.sky.ʁɑ̃.tist\
The verdict
“obscurantiste” is uncommon French (frequency #70,893 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,893
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne présentée comme s'opposant au progrès, à la science, au rationalisme, à la liberté et à l'ouverture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obscurantiste · obscurantiste · French
obscurantiste · rank #70,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,893
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nématodes
Nearest frequency peer: nématodes (-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 « obscurantiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nyssen
Nyssen
29,112 corpus weight
- nécessitero…
nécessiteront
29,110 corpus weight
- nématodes
nématodes
29,109 corpus weight
- obscurantis…
obscurantiste
29,108 corpus weight
- offrirent
offrirent
29,105 corpus weight
- ontariennes
ontariennes
29,104 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obscurantiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obscurantiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.sky.ʁɑ̃.tist\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #70,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obscurantiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obscurantiste is uncommon French at frequency #70,893 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔp.sky.ʁɑ̃.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne présentée comme s'opposant au progrès, à la science, au rationalisme, à la liberté et à l'ouverture.".
obscurantiste has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is obscurantiste, spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-A-N-T-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne présentée comme s'opposant au progrès, à la science, au rationalisme, à la liberté et à l'ouverture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obscurantiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Décidément, c'en est trop, fermons la bouche à cet obscurantiste, à cet obsédé totalitaire. Que faire de ce théocrate borné qui veut empêcher l'histoire de tourner en rond, […].
Nous étions en train de dire qu'il fallait guérir le peuple de la religion, et cet obscurantiste nous agressait en se traitant d'imbécile pour plaider irresponsable, est-ce acceptable?
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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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