opium
\ɔ.pjɔm\
The verdict
“opium” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,779
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suc de plusieurs espèces de pavots, notamment le pavot somnifère (Papaver somniferum) qui a des propriétés narcotiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opium · opium · French
opium · rank #17,779 · 6 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,779
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ongle
Nearest frequency peer: ongle (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « opium »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- offshore
offshore
82,225 corpus weight
- ongle
ongle
82,223 corpus weight
- opium
opium
82,222 corpus weight
- opérationne…
opérationnels
82,221 corpus weight
- ouin
ouin
82,220 corpus weight
- oxyde
oxyde
82,219 corpus weight
What this shows « opium » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | opium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pjɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « opium »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around opium (IPA \ɔ.pjɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,779 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for opium, with forms such as "oipum", "opimu", and "opiumm". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "oum", "opus", "optimum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is opium, spelled O-P-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Suc de plusieurs espèces de pavots, notamment le pavot somnifère (Papaver somniferum) qui a des propriétés narcotiques.
- 2Ce qui engourdit l’esprit, substitue le rêve à la réalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’opium absorbe toutes les forces humaines, il les rassemble sur un point, il les prend, les carre ou les cube, les porte à je ne sais quelle puissance, et donne à l’être entier toute une création dans le vide. Il fait rendre à chaque sens sa plus grande somme de volupté, l’irrite, le fatigue, l’use ; aussi l’opium est-il une mort calculée.
Comme tous les grands voluptueux, il est amoureux de l’impossible ; il voudrait s’élancer, dans les régions idéales, à la recherche de la beauté sans défaut ; l’ivresse ne lui suffit pas, il lui faut l’extase ; à l’aide de l’opium, il tâche de dénouer les liens qui enchaînent l’âme au corps ; il demande à l’hallucination ce que la réalité lui refuse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oipum
- opimu
- opiumm
- oppium
- opuim
- poium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of opium - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
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