opiniâtreté
\ɔ.pi.nja.tʁə.te\
The verdict
“opiniâtreté” is uncommon French (frequency #61,000 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,000
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de celui qui est opiniâtre ; trop grand attachement à son opinion, à sa volonté, voire à son idée fixe, à ses erreurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opiniatrete · opiniâtreté · French
opiniâtreté · rank #61,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,000
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ope
Nearest frequency peer: ope (-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 « opiniâtreté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- OFCE
OFCE
39,004 corpus weight
- ondulées
ondulées
39,003 corpus weight
- ope
ope
39,002 corpus weight
- opiniâtreté
opiniâtreté
39,001 corpus weight
- opéraient
opéraient
39,000 corpus weight
- oublia
oublia
38,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « opiniâtreté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opiniâtreté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pi.nja.tʁə.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opiniâtreté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opiniâtreté is uncommon French at frequency #61,000 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.pi.nja.tʁə.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
opiniâtreté doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is opiniâtreté, spelled O-P-I-N-I-Â-T-R-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de celui qui est opiniâtre ; trop grand attachement à son opinion, à sa volonté, voire à son idée fixe, à ses erreurs.
- 2Fermeté, constance, persévérance, acharnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opiniâtreté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Opiniâtreté invincible.
Il soutient cette erreur, ce mensonge avec opiniâtreté.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).