opposé
\ɔ.pɔ.ze\
The verdict
“opposé” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,478 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #3,478
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est contraire, de différente nature.
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 | opposé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.pɔ.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “opposé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for opposé is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for opposé, with forms such as "opopsé", "oposé", and "oppose". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "osmose", "opposer", "opposée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is opposé, spelled O-P-P-O-S-É.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opopsé,oposé,oppose,oppossé,oppoés,oppsoé,poposé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of opposé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “opposé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-P-P-O-S-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔ.pɔ.ze\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “osmose” - see the side-by-side comparison. opposé vs osmose
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.