obsédant
\ɔp.se.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“obsédant” is uncommon French (frequency #85,070 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,070
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui obsède.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obsedant · obsédant · French
obsédant · rank #85,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,070
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obnubilés
Nearest frequency peer: obnubilés (-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 « obsédant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- néolibéraux
néolibéraux
14,934 corpus weight
- obnubilés
obnubilés
14,932 corpus weight
- obsédant
obsédant
14,931 corpus weight
- occidentali…
occidentalisation
14,930 corpus weight
- offrais
offrais
14,929 corpus weight
- ogival
ogival
14,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obsédant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obsédant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔp.se.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obsédant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obsédant is uncommon French at frequency #85,070 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔp.se.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui obsède.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for obsédant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is obsédant, spelled O-B-S-É-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui obsède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obsédant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle était si préoccupée par l’image obsédante du jeune bijoutier qu’elle ne remarquait ni les âniers, ni les chameliers qui la poursuivaient de leurs cris : « Gare ! Gare ! » […].
La littérature érotique embrasse plus de réalités psychologiques que la morale bourgeoise ne voulait en connaître, et que le puritanisme n'en tolère. Or ces réalités, quoiqu'on en juge, sont au moins aussi quotidiennes et obsédantes que les réalités économiques, […].
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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