opponent
/əˈpəʊ.nənt/
The verdict
“opponent” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oponente, rival, contendiente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-opponent · opponent · Spanish
opponent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opponent |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈpəʊ.nənt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “opponent” en español
Rare enough to double-check
opponent is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈpəʊ.nənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oponente, rival, contendiente.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for opponent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is opponent, spelled O-P-P-O-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Oponente, rival, contendiente.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.