obscurantistes
\ɔp.sky.ʁɑ̃.tist\
The verdict
“obscurantistes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,960 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,960
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de obscurantiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obscurantistes · obscurantistes · French
obscurantistes · rank #75,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,960
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oblitération
Nearest frequency peer: oblitération (-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 « obscurantistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- obéissants
obéissants
24,039 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obscurantistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obscurantistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.sky.ʁɑ̃.tist\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #75,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obscurantistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obscurantistes is uncommon French at frequency #75,960 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔp.sky.ʁɑ̃.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de obscurantiste.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for obscurantistes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is obscurantistes, spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-A-N-T-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de obscurantiste.
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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