oubli
French, noun/u.bli/
oubli is spelled O-U-B-L-I (5 letters) and appears 9.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,048th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oubli is a French masculine noun meaning “oversight (omission)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manque de souvenir”.
What does oubli mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineoversight (omission)
- 2
masculineoblivion
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manque de souvenir. 2. Négligence, manquement. 3. Pardon, renoncement. 4. Le fleuve d’oubli, Le fleuve qui, suivant les anciens, coulait dans les enfers et dont les eaux, disaient-ils, faisaient perdre la mémoire à ceux qui en buvaient. On l’appelle autrement le Léthé.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of oubli
- oublis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oubli?
- /u.bli/
- \u.bli\
- [u.bli]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oubli
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oubli in French?
oubli appears 9.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).