obstructions
\ɔp.stʁyk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“obstructions” is uncommon French (frequency #87,903 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,903
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de obstruction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obstructions · obstructions · French
obstructions · rank #87,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,903
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH néoconservate…
Nearest frequency peer: néoconservateurs (-2 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 « obstructions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- négocions
négocions
12,101 corpus weight
- néoconserva…
néoconservateurs
12,100 corpus weight
- obstructions
obstructions
12,098 corpus weight
- ocelot
ocelot
12,096 corpus weight
- océanograph…
océanographiques
12,095 corpus weight
- odds
odds
12,094 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obstructions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obstructions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.stʁyk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obstructions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obstructions is uncommon French at frequency #87,903 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔp.stʁyk.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de obstruction.".
obstructions doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is obstructions, spelled O-B-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de obstruction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obstructions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, les digestions vicieuses produisent une plus grande quantité de parties tartareuses, lesquelles passent dans la masse du sang & vont produire des obstructions, des schirres ou des concrétions calculeuses dans différens endroits du corps.
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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