obscurci
\ɔbs.kyʁ.si\
The verdict
“obscurci” is uncommon French (frequency #72,584 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,584
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de obscurcir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obscurci · obscurci · French
obscurci · rank #72,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,584
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nécromancien
Nearest frequency peer: nécromancien (-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 « obscurci »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- NPC
NPC
27,420 corpus weight
- nucléotides
nucléotides
27,419 corpus weight
- nécromancien
nécromancien
27,418 corpus weight
- obscurci
obscurci
27,417 corpus weight
- Octavius
Octavius
27,416 corpus weight
- oft
oft
27,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obscurci » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obscurci |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔbs.kyʁ.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obscurci » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obscurci is uncommon French at frequency #72,584 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔbs.kyʁ.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de obscurcir.".
obscurci doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 obscurci, spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-C-I.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de obscurcir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obscurci appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À mon seuil obscurci ton ombre se dresse, ton haleine glisse dans mes cheveux, ta bouche cherche ma bouche.
L’horizon tricolore s’est même carrément obscurci dans le temps additionnel, avec la sortie sur civière de Selma Bacha, tête entre les mains, après une nette torsion de la cheville gauche.
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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