obsédante
\ɔp.se.dɑ̃t\
The verdict
“obsédante” is uncommon French (frequency #79,572 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,572
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de obsédant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obsedante · obsédante · French
obsédante · rank #79,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,572
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH névralgiques
Nearest frequency peer: névralgiques (-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 « obsédante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nian
nian
20,437 corpus weight
- nugget
nugget
20,432 corpus weight
- névralgiques
névralgiques
20,430 corpus weight
- obsédante
obsédante
20,429 corpus weight
- Olier
Olier
20,427 corpus weight
- omise
omise
20,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obsédante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obsédante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔp.se.dɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obsédante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obsédante is uncommon French at frequency #79,572 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔp.se.dɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de obsédant.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for obsédante, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 obsédante, spelled O-B-S-É-D-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de obsédant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obsédante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’obsédante proximité de la rivière embrouillait les pensées du commissaire.
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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