obusier
\ɔ.by.zje\
The verdict
“obusier” is uncommon French (frequency #91,990 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,990
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce d’artillerie courte qui lance des obus, généralement à tir plongeant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obusier · obusier · French
obusier · rank #91,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,990
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obstruées
Nearest frequency peer: obstruées (-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 « obusier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- néphrologie
néphrologie
8,015 corpus weight
- obsidian
obsidian
8,013 corpus weight
- obstruées
obstruées
8,012 corpus weight
- obusier
obusier
8,011 corpus weight
- octuple
octuple
8,010 corpus weight
- oliveraie
oliveraie
8,008 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obusier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obusier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.by.zje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obusier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obusier is uncommon French at frequency #91,990 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.by.zje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce d’artillerie courte qui lance des obus, généralement à tir plongeant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for obusier in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 obusier, spelled O-B-U-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’artillerie courte qui lance des obus, généralement à tir plongeant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obusier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À onze heures, il arriva de l’infanterie, à laquelle on remit les canons et l’obusier, et à une heure du matin le régiment de lanciers, mourant de faim, hommes et chevaux, repartit pour Nancy.
Les gros obusiers allemands portaient à douze kilomètres ; ainsi ils se tenaient à peu près hors d’atteinte ; il fallait une très bonne oreille pour entendre leur coup de départ.
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); 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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