obsèdent
\ɔb.sɛd\
The verdict
“obsèdent” is uncommon French (frequency #97,225 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,225
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de obséder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obsedent · obsèdent · French
obsèdent · rank #97,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,225
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Néris
Nearest frequency peer: Néris (-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 « obsèdent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nécrophile
nécrophile
2,780 corpus weight
- néogothique
néogothique
2,778 corpus weight
- Néris
Néris
2,777 corpus weight
- obsèdent
obsèdent
2,776 corpus weight
- offensent
offensent
2,773 corpus weight
- oficial
oficial
2,772 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obsèdent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obsèdent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔb.sɛd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obsèdent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obsèdent is uncommon French at frequency #97,225 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔb.sɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for obsèdent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is obsèdent, spelled O-B-S-È-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de obséder.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de obséder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obsèdent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a fait ses classes, bonneteau aux puces de Saint-Ouen, baron d’une bande d’arcandiers de son espèce, pas des mauvais gars, des mectons qui pensent à plat, autant que les biftons qui les obsèdent.
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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