obvie
\ɔb.vi\
The verdict
“obvie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractérise le sens d’un mot, d’une expression, qui est celui que l’esprit lui donne sans réflexion et abstraction faite du contexte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obvie · obvie · French
obvie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | obvie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔb.vi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obvie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obvie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔb.vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for obvie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is obvie, spelled O-B-V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Caractérise le sens d’un mot, d’une expression, qui est celui que l’esprit lui donne sans réflexion et abstraction faite du contexte.
- 2Qui est évident, dont le sens vient naturellement à l’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obvie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prenons les expressions dans leur sens littéral et obvie comme nous avons fait jusqu'ici.
Il en résulte parmi les savants des divergences d'opinion considérables sur presque toutes les questions importantes : historicité, date et habitat de Zarathuštra, sens obvie des textes fondamentaux sur la doctrine et le culte.
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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.