obscurité
French, noun/ɔp.sky.ʁi.te/
obscurité is spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written French, the 8,672nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obscurité is a French feminine noun meaning “darkness; dark” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Absence partielle ou totale de lumière”.
What does obscurité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedarkness; dark
- 2
feminineobscurity; unknown
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Absence partielle ou totale de lumière. 2. Défaut de clarté dans les idées, dans les expressions. 3. Complication excessive délibérée destinée à occulter le sens d’un discours ou masquer son absence de sens. 4. Passages difficiles à comprendre ; points douteux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of obscurité
- obscurités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obscurité?
- /ɔp.sky.ʁi.te/
- \ɔp.sky.ʁi.te\
- [y.n.‿ɔp.sky.ʁi.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to obscurité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is obscurité in French?
obscurité appears 7.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).