obscurcir
\ɔp.skyʁ.siʁ\
The verdict
“obscurcir” is uncommon French (frequency #64,655 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,655
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre obscur, priver de lumière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obscurcir · obscurcir · French
obscurcir · rank #64,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,655
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Nérac
Nearest frequency peer: Nérac (-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 « obscurcir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nourrissez
nourrissez
35,349 corpus weight
- négligents
négligents
35,348 corpus weight
- Nérac
Nérac
35,347 corpus weight
- obscurcir
obscurcir
35,346 corpus weight
- octroient
octroient
35,345 corpus weight
- ocytocine
ocytocine
35,344 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obscurcir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obscurcir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔp.skyʁ.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obscurcir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obscurcir is uncommon French at frequency #64,655 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔp.skyʁ.siʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for obscurcir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is obscurcir, spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-C-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre obscur, priver de lumière.
- 2Devenir plus foncé, retirer l'éclat d’un objet.
- 3Rendre confus, rendre peu compréhensible.
- 4Compliquer et rendre illisible un code ou un programme informatique.
- 5Entacher la réputation ou la renommée d'une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obscurcir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les nuages obscurcissent le jour, le soleil.
Les fumées obscurcissent l’air.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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