opinion publique
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16 characters
Language
French
word origin
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opinion publique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jugement collectif, réputation ou considération sociale attachée à une personne, une action ou une institution, perçue comme la voix commune d’un peuple. Pronounced \ɔ.pi.njɔ̃ py.blik\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opinion publique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pi.njɔ̃ py.blik\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for opinion publique is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.pi.njɔ̃ py.blik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for opinion publique in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is opinion publique, spelled O-P-I-N-I-O-N- -P-U-B-L-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jugement collectif, réputation ou considération sociale attachée à une personne, une action ou une institution, perçue comme la voix commune d’un peuple.
- 2Ensemble des représentations collectives et des jugements dominants d’une société sur des affaires politiques, sociales ou culturelles, objet d’étude des sciences sociales et considéré comme une force d’influence sur le pouvoir.
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