opportunisme

/\ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#28,272

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

opportunisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Doctrine politique qui subordonne la marche des affaires aux circonstances. Pronounced \ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\. Often confused with opportunité and opportuniste.

Key facts for opportunisme
PropertyValue
Headwordopportunisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\
Letters12
Frequency rank#28,272
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of opportunisme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for opportunisme is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,272 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Doctrine politique qui subordonne la marche des affaires aux circonstances.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for opportunisme, with forms such as "opoprtunisme", "oportunisme", and "opporrtunisme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "opportunité", "opportuniste", "opportunistes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 opportunisme, spelled O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Doctrine politique qui subordonne la marche des affaires aux circonstances.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opoprtunisme,oportunisme,opporrtunisme,opportnuisme,opporttunisme,opportuinsme,opportunimse,opportunisem,opportunismme,opportunissme,opportunnisme,opportunsime,opporutnisme,oppotrunisme,opprotunisme,poportunisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for opportunisme

Misspelling Variants of "opportunisme"

opoprtunisme12oportunisme11opporrtunisme13opportnuisme12opporttunisme13opportuinsme12opportunimse12opportunisem12
Misspelling Variants of "opportunisme"

Frequency rank: #28,272 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "opportunisme"?
"opportunisme" is spelled O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\.
What does "opportunisme" mean?
As a noun, "opportunisme" means: Doctrine politique qui subordonne la marche des affaires aux circonstances.
What words are commonly confused with "opportunisme"?
"opportunisme" is commonly confused with "opportunité", "opportuniste", "opportunistes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "opportunisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "opportunisme" is \ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "opportunisme" come from?
"opportunisme" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.