opportunisme
\ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\
The verdict
“opportunisme” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,272
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine politique qui subordonne la marche des affaires aux circonstances.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opportunisme · opportunisme · French
opportunisme · rank #28,272 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,272
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ONF
Nearest frequency peer: ONF (-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 « opportunisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- occitan
occitan
71,732 corpus weight
- océanique
océanique
71,731 corpus weight
- ONF
ONF
71,730 corpus weight
- opportunisme
opportunisme
71,729 corpus weight
- oreillers
oreillers
71,728 corpus weight
- oula
oula
71,726 corpus weight
What this shows « opportunisme » 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 | opportunisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #28,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « opportunisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around opportunisme (IPA \ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.nism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,272 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Doctrine politique qui subordonne la marche des affaires aux circonstances.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for opportunisme, with forms such as "opoprtunisme", "oportunisme", and "opporrtunisme". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "opportunité", "opportuniste", "opportunistes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is opportunisme, spelled O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Doctrine politique qui subordonne la marche des affaires aux circonstances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opportunisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il raconte comment un régime dont le totalitarisme même conduit à la folie, encourage les opportunismes les plus délirants.
Hobbes utilise à de nombreuses reprises les thèmes du calvinisme. Mais c’est un calvinisme d’opportunisme, qui n’hésite pas à se transformer si nécessaire, prenant à l’occasion des accents franchement anti-puritains (qui révèlent sa vraie pensée).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opoprtunisme
- oportunisme
- opporrtunisme
- opportnuisme
- opporttunisme
- opportuinsme
- opportunimse
- opportunisem
- opportunismme
- opportunissme
- opportunnisme
- opportunsime
- opporutnisme
- oppotrunisme
- opprotunisme
- poportunisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of opportunisme - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "opportunisme"?
What does "opportunisme" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "opportunisme"?
How do you pronounce "opportunisme"?
What language does "opportunisme" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "opportunisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).