obstinent
\ob.stin\
The verdict
“obstinent” is uncommon French (frequency #56,791 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,791
- 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 obstiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obstinent · obstinent · French
obstinent · rank #56,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,791
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oblivion
Nearest frequency peer: oblivion (-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 « obstinent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nubie
Nubie
43,213 corpus weight
- Nîmois
Nîmois
43,212 corpus weight
- oblivion
oblivion
43,211 corpus weight
- obstinent
obstinent
43,210 corpus weight
- Oisans
Oisans
43,209 corpus weight
- olfactive
olfactive
43,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obstinent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obstinent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ob.stin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obstinent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obstinent is uncommon French at frequency #56,791 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ob.stin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
obstinent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is obstinent, spelled O-B-S-T-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de obstiner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de obstiner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obstinent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À quoi bon les babelismes, les icarismes de toutes ces grandes impuissances mondiales qui s’obstinent avec une persévérance de maniaques à pousser la planète vers sa décomposition ?
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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