opa
\ˈɔpa\
The verdict
“opa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,636) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,636
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opa · opa · French
opa · rank #31,636 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,636
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH olonne
Nearest frequency peer: olonne (-1 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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « opa »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- obsessions
obsessions
68,368 corpus weight
- olonne
olonne
68,366 corpus weight
- opa
opa
68,365 corpus weight
- orchestrée
orchestrée
68,364 corpus weight
- organisera
organisera
68,363 corpus weight
- ovales
ovales
68,362 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « opa » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | opa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɔpa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « opa »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for opa is neighbouring look-alikes ("ou", "or", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈɔpa\. Frequency #31,636 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Science.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for opa, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "or", "os", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is opa, spelled O-P-A.
Definition
- 1Science.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how opa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Université Paul Sabatier tir kotla icde opa nume zo volar gan pinapawisiki.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).