oublieux

adj

The verdict

“oublieux” is uncommon French (frequency #93,057 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,057
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a oublié, qui est sujet à oublier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-oublieux · oublieux · French

oublieux · rank #93,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,057
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH ouroboros

Nearest frequency peer: ouroboros (+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 « oublieux »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oublieux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for oublieux
PropertyValue
Headwordoublieux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#93,057
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « oublieux » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.oublieuxtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « ouroboros » (#93,058), « oseriez » (#93,055), « overview » (#93,059). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « oublieux » est au #93,057. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

oublieux is uncommon French at frequency #93,057 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a oublié, qui est sujet à oublier.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for oublieux, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is oublieux, spelled O-U-B-L-I-E-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a oublié, qui est sujet à oublier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how oublieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il faut qu’elle nous suive et qu’elle ne se perde pas dans ce grand Paris, qui, dit-on, disperse tant de bons sentiments et rend oublieux les cœurs les plus droits.
  2. – Mon Dieu ! que je suis oublieuse, fit-elle… Mon Dieu ! mon Dieu !... j’ai oublié ma prière à saint Joseph !

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oublieux"?
"oublieux" is spelled O-U-B-L-I-E-U-X.
What does "oublieux" mean?
As an adjective, "oublieux" means: Qui a oublié, qui est sujet à oublier.
What language does "oublieux" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "oublieux", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list