opduiken
The verdict
“opduiken” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Émerger, apparaître, faire surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opduiken · opduiken · French
opduiken · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | opduiken |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opduiken » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opduiken is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for opduiken, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 opduiken, spelled O-P-D-U-I-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Émerger, apparaître, faire surface.
- 2Rapporter à la surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opduiken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De pinguïn dook weer op met een visje in zijn bek. = Le pingouin refit surface un poisson dans le bec.
Zij doken een Griekse amfoor op tijdens hun vakantie aan de Egeïsche kust. = Ils ont rapporté à la surface une amphore grecque pendant leurs vacances sur la côte égéenne.
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.