obscurcir
\ɔp.skyʁ.siʁ\
The verdict
“obscurcir” is uncommon French (frequency #64,655 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,655
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rendre obscur, priver de lumière.
| 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) |
Where “obscurcir” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
obscurcir is uncommon French at frequency #64,655 among 75,470 “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.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is O-B-S-C-U-R-C-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.