opale
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,224
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
opale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Famille de minéraux composé de silice hydratée de formule brute SiO₂, nH₂O, qui inclut trois espèces minérales distinctes : la cristobalite, la tridymite et la silice amorphe hydratée. Pronounced \ɔ.pal\. Often confused with oral and opté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for opale is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.pal\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,224 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for opale, with forms such as "oaple", "opael", and "opalle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "oral", "opté", "otage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is opale, spelled O-P-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Famille de minéraux composé de silice hydratée de formule brute SiO₂, nH₂O, qui inclut trois espèces minérales distinctes : la cristobalite, la tridymite et la silice amorphe hydratée.
- 2Croûte de cristaux qui se forme à la surface du sirop de sucre pendant la cristallisation → voir opaler.
- 3Nom donné à l'un des trois codon-stop. Parfois aussi nommé azure. C'est le codon UGA.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oaple,opael,opalle,oplae,oppale,poale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for opale
Misspelling Variants of "opale"
Frequency rank: #34,224 in French
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