opt
/ɒpt/
"opt" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“opt” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,325) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,325
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To choose; select.
Corpus desk
Index EN-opt · opt · English
opt · rank #8,325 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,325
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH obsession
Nearest frequency peer: obsession (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “opt”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Ng
Ng
91,679 corpus weight
- obsession
obsession
91,677 corpus weight
- opt
opt
91,676 corpus weight
- particle
particle
91,675 corpus weight
- peanut
peanut
91,674 corpus weight
- Penn
Penn
91,673 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “opt” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɒpt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “opt”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for opt is neighbouring look-alikes ("or", "OS", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ɒpt/. Frequency #8,325 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Gloss: "To choose; select.".
Zero misspellings are on record for opt in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "or", "OS", "oz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1853; borrowed from French opter, from Latin optō (“to choose; to select”). Doublet of optate. The correct English form is opt, spelled O-P-T.
Definition
- 1To choose; select.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He opted not to go.
She opted for the salad rather than the steak.
Etymology
First attested in 1853; borrowed from French opter, from Latin optō (“to choose; to select”). Doublet of optate.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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