obsidian
\ˌɒb.ˈsɪd.i.ən\
The verdict
“obsidian” is uncommon French (frequency #91,988 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,988
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsidienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obsidian · obsidian · French
obsidian · rank #91,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,988
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obstruées
Nearest frequency peer: obstruées (+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 « obsidian »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- numismate
numismate
8,017 corpus weight
- néphrologie
néphrologie
8,015 corpus weight
- obsidian
obsidian
8,013 corpus weight
- obstruées
obstruées
8,012 corpus weight
- obusier
obusier
8,011 corpus weight
- octuple
octuple
8,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obsidian » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obsidian |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌɒb.ˈsɪd.i.ən\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obsidian » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obsidian is uncommon French at frequency #91,988 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌɒb.ˈsɪd.i.ən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsidienne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for obsidian in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is obsidian, spelled O-B-S-I-D-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1Obsidienne.
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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