obstruent
\ɔp.stʁy\
The verdict
“obstruent” is uncommon French (frequency #95,124 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,124
- 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 obstruer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obstruent · obstruent · French
obstruent · rank #95,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,124
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH néologie
Nearest frequency peer: néologie (-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 « obstruent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nuptiales
nuptiales
4,881 corpus weight
- néologie
néologie
4,878 corpus weight
- obstruent
obstruent
4,877 corpus weight
- océaniens
océaniens
4,876 corpus weight
- ojo
ojo
4,875 corpus weight
- ondées
ondées
4,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obstruent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obstruent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔp.stʁy\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obstruent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obstruent is uncommon French at frequency #95,124 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔp.stʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for obstruent in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 obstruent, spelled O-B-S-T-R-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de obstruer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de obstruer.
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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