oligopole
\ɔ.li.ɡɔ.pɔl\
The verdict
“oligopole” is uncommon French (frequency #82,296 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,296
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quasi-monopole ; marché dominé par quelques entreprises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oligopole · oligopole · French
oligopole · rank #82,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,296
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OEM
Nearest frequency peer: OEM (-2 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « oligopole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obligèrent
obligèrent
17,709 corpus weight
- occitans
occitans
17,708 corpus weight
- OEM
OEM
17,707 corpus weight
- oligopole
oligopole
17,705 corpus weight
- Olsson
Olsson
17,703 corpus weight
- ONDRP
ONDRP
17,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oligopole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oligopole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.li.ɡɔ.pɔl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oligopole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oligopole is uncommon French at frequency #82,296 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.li.ɡɔ.pɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quasi-monopole ; marché dominé par quelques entreprises.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oligopole, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is oligopole, spelled O-L-I-G-O-P-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Quasi-monopole ; marché dominé par quelques entreprises.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oligopole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans « L’hydre mondiale. L’oligopole bancaire », François Morin montre que quelques banques internationales mettent en péril toute l'économie mondiale, car, disposant d'un pouvoir monétaire quasiment sans borne, elles jouent un rôle trop important pour que les États puissent les laisser couler en cas de difficultés majeures.
Il s’ensuit un prix nettement supérieur au coût de la dernière unité produite, ce qui va permettre de maximiser le profit en situation d’oligopole.
Antonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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