obscurité
\ɔp.sky.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“obscurité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,743
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absence partielle ou totale de lumière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obscurite · obscurité · French
obscurité · rank #8,743 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,743
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH night
Nearest frequency peer: night (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “obscurité”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- natation
natation
91,261 corpus weight
- Niger
Niger
91,260 corpus weight
- night
night
91,259 corpus weight
- obscurité
obscurité
91,258 corpus weight
- obtenue
obtenue
91,257 corpus weight
- opus
opus
91,255 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “obscurité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | obscurité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.sky.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “obscurité” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around obscurité (IPA \ɔp.sky.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,743 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for obscurité, with forms such as "boscurité", "obbscurité", and "obcsurité". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "obscure", "obscénité", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is obscurité, spelled O-B-S-C-U-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Absence partielle ou totale de lumière.
- 2Défaut de clarté dans les idées, dans les expressions.
- 3Passages difficiles à comprendre ; points douteux.
- 4Situation médiocre, sans éclat.
- 5Absence de connaissance qu’on a des choses ; ignorance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obscurité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu de l’insondable obscurité, dont s’enveloppe le Kara-Koum, j’éprouve l’impression que donne l’immensité nocturne de la mer autour d’un navire.
Le dirigeable commençait à se livrer à des exploits de jiu-jitsu atmosphérique, et Bert se trouva balloté dans une obscurité pluvieuse où il ne distinguait autre chose qu'un brouillard qui se déversait tout autour de lui.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boscurité
- obbscurité
- obcsurité
- obsccurité
- obscruité
- obscuirté
- obscurite
- obscuritté
- obscuriét
- obscurrité
- obscurtié
- obsscurité
- obsucrité
- osbcurité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obscurité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "obscurité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "obscurité" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "obscure". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #8,743 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "O" letter cohort. O–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
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.