oppidum
\ɔ.pi.dɔm\
The verdict
“oppidum” is uncommon French (frequency #55,482 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,482
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Centre préurbain surélevé (généralement situé sur une colline ou sur un plateau) dont les défenses naturelles ont été renforcées par l’être humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oppidum · oppidum · French
oppidum · rank #55,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,482
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oni
Nearest frequency peer: oni (-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 « oppidum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ombudsman
ombudsman
44,522 corpus weight
- omoplate
omoplate
44,521 corpus weight
- oni
oni
44,520 corpus weight
- oppidum
oppidum
44,519 corpus weight
- opposèrent
opposèrent
44,518 corpus weight
- opératrice
opératrice
44,517 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oppidum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oppidum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pi.dɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oppidum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oppidum is uncommon French at frequency #55,482 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.pi.dɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Centre préurbain surélevé (généralement situé sur une colline ou sur un plateau) dont les défenses naturelles ont été renforcées par l’être humain.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oppidum, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is oppidum, spelled O-P-P-I-D-U-M.
Definition
- 1Centre préurbain surélevé (généralement situé sur une colline ou sur un plateau) dont les défenses naturelles ont été renforcées par l’être humain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oppidum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tombes plates et les tumulus de Pact, Voreppe, Rives, Vernas, Optevoz et Mépieu, le casque des Avenières, l’oppidum de Larina (Hières-sur-Amby) témoignent de cette pénétration.
En terminant, nous dirons un mot de ces bizarres constructions en pierre sèche, élevées sur des collines escarpées, et formant des enceintes cyclopéennes. Ce sont les lieux de refuge ou oppida.
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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