OPEP
\o.pɛp\
The verdict
“OPEP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,648) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,648
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Association internationale de pays exportateurs de pétrole, qui coordonne leur politique de production, de distribution et de prix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opep · OPEP · French
OPEP · rank #34,648 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,648
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oncologie
Nearest frequency peer: oncologie (-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 « OPEP »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Ogier
Ogier
65,356 corpus weight
- omettre
omettre
65,355 corpus weight
- oncologie
oncologie
65,354 corpus weight
- OPEP
OPEP
65,353 corpus weight
- optimales
optimales
65,352 corpus weight
- oralement
oralement
65,351 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « OPEP » 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 | OPEP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.pɛp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OPEP »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OPEP is neighbouring look-alikes ("ose", "ôté", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \o.pɛp\. Frequency #34,648 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Association internationale de pays exportateurs de pétrole, qui coordonne leur politique de production, de distribution et de prix.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for OPEP, with forms such as "oepp", "opepp", and "oppep". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ose", "ôté", "ops", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is OPEP, spelled O-P-E-P.
Definition
- 1Association internationale de pays exportateurs de pétrole, qui coordonne leur politique de production, de distribution et de prix.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oepp
- opepp
- oppep
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of OPEP - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).