opium du peuple
\ɔ.pjɔm dy pœpl\
The verdict
“opium du peuple” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Religion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opium du peuple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pjɔm dy pœpl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “opium du peuple” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for opium du peuple is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.pjɔm dy pœpl\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for opium du peuple in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 opium du peuple, spelled O-P-I-U-M- -D-U- -P-E-U-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Religion.
- 2(par dérivation) Toutes activités censées détourner le peuple des problèmes économiques et sociaux.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-P-I-U-M- -D-U- -P-E-U-P-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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