opposent
\ɔ.pɔz\
The verdict
“opposent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,590. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,590
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de opposer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opposent · opposent · French
opposent · rank #8,590 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,590
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH olive
Nearest frequency peer: olive (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « opposent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obligatoires
obligatoires
91,413 corpus weight
- olive
olive
91,412 corpus weight
- opposent
opposent
91,411 corpus weight
- ordinaires
ordinaires
91,410 corpus weight
- passif
passif
91,409 corpus weight
- paulo
paulo
91,408 corpus weight
What this shows « opposent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | opposent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.pɔz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « opposent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around opposent (IPA \ɔ.pɔz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,590 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for opposent, with forms such as "opopsent", "oposent", and "oppoesnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "opposer", "opposera", "opposé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is opposent, spelled O-P-P-O-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de opposer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de opposer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how opposent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’un des obstacles qui s’opposent à la formulation même du problème est notre tendance à sur-privilégier la conceptualisation économique des rapports humains : tendance qui s’explique sans doute par le caractère « productiviste » des sociétés industrielles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opopsent
- oposent
- oppoesnt
- opposennt
- opposentt
- opposetn
- opposnet
- oppossent
- oppsoent
- poposent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of opposent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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