Opals
"opals" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Opals” is uncommon English (frequency #63,857 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,857
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The women's national basketball representative team of Australia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-opals · Opals · English
Opals · rank #63,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,857
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH operatively
Nearest frequency peer: operatively (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Opals”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ocelot
ocelot
36,148 corpus weight
- Opals
Opals
36,144 corpus weight
- operatively
operatively
36,143 corpus weight
- Ophir
Ophir
36,142 corpus weight
- ostracism
ostracism
36,140 corpus weight
- Ouachita
Ouachita
36,139 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Opals” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Opals |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Opals” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Opals is uncommon English at frequency #63,857 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The women's national basketball representative team of Australia.".
Opals has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From opal, a gemstone mined in Australia. The correct English form is Opals, spelled O-P-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1The women's national basketball representative team of Australia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Opals appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Carrie Graf knows about coaching creative individual players, as she has coached women′s basketball superstar Lauren Jackson, who shot to fame as a 15-year-old and joined the Australian women′s Opals basketball team by 16.
This, combined with a sycophantic basketball press in Australia, created a weight of expectation that was slowly crushing the young player. Four months before the Olympics, Opals coach Maher lamented that he was having ‘a few too many’ talks with her on how to cope.
Etymology
From opal, a gemstone mined in Australia.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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