opposé
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,478
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
opposé is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est contraire, de différente nature. Pronounced \ɔ.pɔ.ze\. It ranks #3,478 in French word frequency. Often confused with osmose and opposer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opposé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɔ.pɔ.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for opposé is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.pɔ.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,478 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for opposé, with forms such as "opopsé", "oposé", and "oppose". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "osmose", "opposer", "opposée", and more, 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 opposé, spelled O-P-P-O-S-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est contraire, de différente nature.
- 2Qui est situé en face, vis-à-vis
- 3Terme relatif ou contraire à un autre terme.
- 4Les angles opposés par le sommet sont des angles tels que les côtés de l’un sont le prolongement de ceux de l’autre.
- 5Dont la somme avec le nombre en question est nulle, en parlant d’un nombre, ou dont la somme est nulle en parlant de deux nombres.
- 6Dont la somme avec le nombre en question est nulle, en parlant d’un nombre, ou dont la somme est nulle en parlant de deux nombres.
- 7Dont la somme avec le nombre en question est nulle, en parlant d’un nombre, ou dont la somme est nulle en parlant de deux nombres.
- 8Se dit d’organes (feuilles par exemple) placés par paire sur un axe ou une tige, se faisant face à la même hauteur.
- 9Se dit de meubles dont l’orientation est inversée par rapport à celle des autres meubles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opopsé,oposé,oppose,oppossé,oppoés,oppsoé,poposé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for opposé
Misspelling Variants of "opposé"
Frequency rank: #3,478 in French
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