opposante
\ɔ.po.zɑ̃t\
The verdict
“opposante” is uncommon French (frequency #56,796 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,796
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de opposant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opposante · opposante · French
opposante · rank #56,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,796
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH omniprésentes
Nearest frequency peer: omniprésentes (-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 « opposante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- olfactive
olfactive
43,207 corpus weight
- omniprésent…
omniprésentes
43,206 corpus weight
- opposante
opposante
43,205 corpus weight
- opprime
opprime
43,204 corpus weight
- ordonnait
ordonnait
43,203 corpus weight
- ordonnez
ordonnez
43,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « opposante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opposante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.po.zɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opposante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opposante is uncommon French at frequency #56,796 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.po.zɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de opposant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for opposante, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is opposante, spelled O-P-P-O-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de opposant.
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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