opportuns
\ɔ.pɔʁ.tœ̃\
The verdict
“opportuns” is uncommon French (frequency #85,080 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,080
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de opportun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opportuns · opportuns · French
opportuns · rank #85,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,080
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ordine
Nearest frequency peer: ordine (+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 « opportuns »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ombilic
ombilic
14,925 corpus weight
- omen
omen
14,924 corpus weight
- opportuns
opportuns
14,921 corpus weight
- ordine
ordine
14,920 corpus weight
- organizatio…
organizations
14,919 corpus weight
- orientalis
orientalis
14,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « opportuns » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opportuns |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.pɔʁ.tœ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opportuns » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opportuns is uncommon French at frequency #85,080 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.pɔʁ.tœ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de opportun.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for opportuns, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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. The correct French form is opportuns, spelled O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de opportun.
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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