obstrue
\ɔp.stʁy\
The verdict
“obstrue” is uncommon French (frequency #81,400 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,400
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de obstruer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obstrue · obstrue · French
obstrue · rank #81,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,400
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obstinés
Nearest frequency peer: obstinés (-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 « obstrue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- néoprène
néoprène
18,605 corpus weight
- névrosée
névrosée
18,604 corpus weight
- obstinés
obstinés
18,602 corpus weight
- obstrue
obstrue
18,601 corpus weight
- octogonal
octogonal
18,600 corpus weight
- offusquée
offusquée
18,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obstrue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obstrue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔp.stʁy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obstrue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obstrue is uncommon French at frequency #81,400 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔp.stʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
obstrue has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is obstrue, spelled O-B-S-T-R-U-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de obstruer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de obstruer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de obstruer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de obstruer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de obstruer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obstrue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pointe avancée de la psychanalyse dans le champ social ne vise sûrement pas je ne sais quelle interprétation sauvage, ni encore moins à fournir des conseils ou des recettes, ce à quoi malheureusement certains psychanalystes se commettent, mais à soutenir chacun à être ce qu’il est, à désempéguer chaque professionnel de la gangue qui le plombe et lui ob…
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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