opposé

/\ɔ.pɔ.ze\/ adj

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.

Key facts for opposé
PropertyValue
Headwordopposé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɔ.pɔ.ze\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,478
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Qui est contraire, de différente nature.
  2. 2
    Qui est situé en face, vis-à-vis
  3. 3
    Terme relatif ou contraire à un autre terme.
  4. 4
    Les angles opposés par le sommet sont des angles tels que les côtés de l’un sont le prolongement de ceux de l’autre.
  5. 5
    Dont 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.
  6. 6
    Dont 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.
  7. 7
    Dont 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.
  8. 8
    Se dit d’organes (feuilles par exemple) placés par paire sur un axe ou une tige, se faisant face à la même hauteur.
  9. 9
    Se 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"

opopsé6oposé5oppose6oppossé7oppoés6oppsoé6poposé6
Misspelling Variants of "opposé"

Frequency rank: #3,478 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "opposé"?
"opposé" is spelled O-P-P-O-S-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.pɔ.ze\.
What does "opposé" mean?
As an adj, "opposé" means: Qui est contraire, de différente nature.
What words are commonly confused with "opposé"?
"opposé" is commonly confused with "osmose", "opposer", "opposée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "opposé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "opposé" is \ɔ.pɔ.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "opposé" come from?
"opposé" 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.