opérons
\o.pe.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“opérons” is uncommon French (frequency #70,901 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,901
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de opéron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-operons · opérons · French
opérons · rank #70,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,901
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oppressive
Nearest frequency peer: oppressive (-2 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 « opérons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- offrirent
offrirent
29,105 corpus weight
- ontariennes
ontariennes
29,104 corpus weight
- oppressive
oppressive
29,102 corpus weight
- opérons
opérons
29,100 corpus weight
- orthophonis…
orthophonistes
29,096 corpus weight
- OTC
OTC
29,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « opérons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opérons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.pe.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opérons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opérons is uncommon French at frequency #70,901 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.pe.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de opéron.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for opérons in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is opérons, spelled O-P-É-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de opéron.
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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