OPP

\o.pe.pe\

/\o.pe.pe\/ noun

The verdict

“OPP” is uncommon French (frequency #62,489 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,489
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier de paix principal, ancien grade de la police française en tenue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-opp · OPP · French

OPP · rank #62,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,489
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH opinel

Nearest frequency peer: opinel (-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 « OPP »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « OPP » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for OPP
PropertyValue
HeadwordOPP
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.pe.pe\
Letters3
Frequency rank#62,489
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « OPP » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.OPPtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « opinel » (#62,488), « oppa » (#62,490), « oniriques » (#62,487). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « OPP » est au #62,489. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

OPP is uncommon French at frequency #62,489 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.pe.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Officier de paix principal, ancien grade de la police française en tenue.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for OPP in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is OPP, spelled O-P-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    Officier de paix principal, ancien grade de la police française en tenue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how OPP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’OPP Desmarets était responsable de la mise en carte, à fin de traitement informatique, de toutes les informations susceptibles d’intéresser la PJ et il se considérait plus comme un scientifique que comme un policier.
  2. Dans un commissariat central, on trouve normalement deux sortes d’OPP : un OPP "mobile" qui coiffe directement les OP et les remplace en leur absence ; un OPP "technique" chargé de la gestion du commissariat et de l'administration du bureau.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "OPP"?
"OPP" is spelled O-P-P. The IPA pronunciation is \o.pe.pe\.
What does "OPP" mean?
As a noun, "OPP" means: Officier de paix principal, ancien grade de la police française en tenue.
How do you pronounce "OPP"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "OPP" is \o.pe.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "OPP", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list