opal
\ɔpal\
The verdict
“opal” is uncommon French (frequency #75,966 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,966
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de opálit
Corpus desk
Index FR-opal · opal · French
opal · rank #75,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,966
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ombrageux
Nearest frequency peer: ombrageux (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « opal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oliv
oliv
24,037 corpus weight
- ombrageux
ombrageux
24,036 corpus weight
- opal
opal
24,035 corpus weight
- oppriment
oppriment
24,034 corpus weight
- optimisées
optimisées
24,033 corpus weight
- orgasmique
orgasmique
24,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « opal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔpal\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opal is uncommon French at frequency #75,966 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔpal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de opálit".
No misspelling variants are generated for opal in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 opal, spelled O-P-A-L.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de opálit
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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