obtusité
\ɔb.ty.zi.te\
The verdict
“obtusité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractéristique d’un esprit borné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obtusite · obtusité · French
obtusité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obtusité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔb.ty.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
obtusité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔb.ty.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractéristique d’un esprit borné.".
No misspelling variants are generated for obtusité in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is obtusité, spelled O-B-T-U-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractéristique d’un esprit borné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obtusité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’abord à l’encontre de son père, qui symbolise toutes les valeurs agrestes qu’il a en horreur : la bassesse, la brutalité, la rusticité, l’ignorance, l’obtusité, la dévotion , le philistinisme, forcément dirigé contre lui.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.