obscures
The verdict
“obscures” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,547
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de obscur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obscures · obscures · French
obscures · rank #18,547 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,547
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH noyaux
Nearest frequency peer: noyaux (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « obscures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Nixon
Nixon
81,457 corpus weight
- nou
nou
81,456 corpus weight
- noyaux
noyaux
81,455 corpus weight
- obscures
obscures
81,454 corpus weight
- outrance
outrance
81,453 corpus weight
- pantin
pantin
81,452 corpus weight
What this shows « obscures » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obscures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « obscures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around obscures, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,547 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de obscur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for obscures, with forms such as "boscures", "obbscures", and "obcsures". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "obscurs", "obscur", "obscure", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 obscures, spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de obscur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obscures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les existences les plus illustres comme dans les plus obscures, n’y a-t-il pas pour l’animal comme pour les secrétaires généraux un zénith et un nadir, une période où le pelage est magnifique, où la fortune rayonne de tout son éclat.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boscures
- obbscures
- obcsures
- obsccures
- obscrues
- obscuers
- obscuress
- obscurres
- obscurse
- obsscures
- obsucres
- osbcures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obscures - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).