obtus
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,455
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
obtus is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est arrondi, émoussé au lieu d’être anguleux ou pointu. Pronounced \ɔp.ty\. Often confused with opus and obus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obtus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɔp.ty\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for obtus is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔp.ty\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,455 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for obtus, with forms such as "obbtus", "obtsu", and "obttus". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "opus", "obus", "obs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is obtus, spelled O-B-T-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est arrondi, émoussé au lieu d’être anguleux ou pointu.
- 2Qualifie un angle saillant plus grand, plus ouvert qu’un angle droit, c’est-à-dire, dont la mesure est comprise entre pi/2 et pi radians.
- 3Qualifie un esprit peu pénétrant, qui peine à concevoir.
- 4Stupide.
- 5Qualifie une sensation qui manque de vivacité, de netteté.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: obbtus,obtsu,obttus,obtuss,otbus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "obtus"
Frequency rank: #38,455 in French
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