opinions-are-like-assholes
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "opinions-are-like-assholes", 26-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "opinions-are-like-assholes" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "opinions-are-like-assholes" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“opinions are like assholes” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a proverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: Everyone has opinions, and most people's opinions are of exceedingly poor quality.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opinions are like assholes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | /əˈpɪnjənz ɑːɹ laɪ̯k ˈæsˌhoʊlz/ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “opinions are like assholes” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for opinions are like assholes is 26 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈpɪnjənz ɑːɹ laɪ̯k ˈæsˌhoʊlz/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Everyone has opinions, and most people's opinions are of exceedingly poor quality.".
No misspelling variants are generated for opinions are like assholes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Shortened from "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one"; "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one and they usually stink"; "Opinions are like assholes: everybody's got one, and everybody thinks theirs smells nicer than everyone else's"; or some… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is opinions are like assholes, spelled O-P-I-N-I-O-N-S- -A-R-E- -L-I-K-E- -A-S-S-H-O-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Everyone has opinions, and most people's opinions are of exceedingly poor quality.
Etymology
Shortened from "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one"; "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one and they usually stink"; "Opinions are like assholes: everybody's got one, and everybody thinks theirs smells nicer than everyone else's"; or some variant of the three.
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- The one correct English spelling is O-P-I-N-I-O-N-S- -A-R-E- -L-I-K-E- -A-S-S-H-O-L-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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