opposed
op·posed/əˈpoʊzd/adjective, verb
opposed is spelled O-P-P-O-S-E-D, 2 syllables: op·posed. The wrong spelling people search most is oppossed: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 35 of all searches for the word. Opposed is an adjective meaning “Acting in opposition; opposing”.
How many letters and syllables are in opposed?
| Letters | 7: O-P-P-O-S-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: op·posed |
| In writing | 32 times per million words; the 2,941st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, oppossed, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell opposed?
Opposed is spelled O-P-P-O-S-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 35 of the searches for opposed in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is opposed?
Opposed appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,941st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce opposed?
- US /əˈpoʊzd/
- UK /əˈpəʊzd/
Opposed has 2 syllables, split op·posed in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-opposed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with opposed?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as opposed from its last stressed vowel (/oʊzd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does opposed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Acting in opposition; opposing.
- 2
Being, of having an opponent; not unopposed.
- 3
Opposite.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of oppose
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Opposed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense acting in opposition; opposing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | gegensätzlich |
| Spanish | opuesto |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.