opex
\ɔ.pɛks\
The verdict
“opex” is uncommon French (frequency #52,241 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,241
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opération extérieure, intervention de l’armée d’un pays en dehors de son territoire national.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opex · opex · French
opex · rank #52,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,241
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Olivet
Nearest frequency peer: Olivet (-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 « opex »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- occasionnant
occasionnant
47,764 corpus weight
- OLED
OLED
47,762 corpus weight
- Olivet
Olivet
47,761 corpus weight
- opex
opex
47,760 corpus weight
- Ornithologie
Ornithologie
47,759 corpus weight
- orphelinats
orphelinats
47,758 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « opex » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pɛks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opex is uncommon French at frequency #52,241 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.pɛks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Opération extérieure, intervention de l’armée d’un pays en dehors de son territoire national.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for opex in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is opex, spelled O-P-E-X.
Definition
- 1Opération extérieure, intervention de l’armée d’un pays en dehors de son territoire national.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cher Hervé, Tu as été membre du gouvernement de François Fillon. Tu étais alors Ministre de la Défense, un ministère régalien. Ce n’est pas un petit poste, d’autant plus que la France était et est encore engagée dans de multiples Opex (ndlr : opérations extéreures).
Elle a actuellement quelque 1800 véhicules en « opex » (opération extérieure) en Afghanistan, au Liban, au Tchad, en Côte d’Ivoire, Somalie et ailleurs.
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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