opposer

/\ɔ.po.ze\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,373

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

opposer is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre une chose vis-à-vis d’une autre, ou en placer plusieurs de manière à faire contraste. Pronounced \ɔ.po.ze\. It ranks #5,373 in French word frequency. Often confused with opposera and opposé.

Key facts for opposer
PropertyValue
Headwordopposer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɔ.po.ze\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,373
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for opposer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.po.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,373 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for opposer, with forms such as "opopser", "oposer", and "oppoesr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "opposera", "opposé", "opposa", 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 opposer, spelled O-P-P-O-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mettre une chose vis-à-vis d’une autre, ou en placer plusieurs de manière à faire contraste.
  2. 2
    Placer une chose de manière qu’elle fasse obstacle à une autre.
  3. 3
    Mettre en comparaison, en opposition ou en parallèle.
  4. 4
    Se mettre en opposition face à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un.
  5. 5
    Déclarer suivant les formes judiciaires qu’on met empêchement à l’exécution de quelque acte, de quelque arrêt, de quelque formalité de justice.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opopser,oposer,oppoesr,opposerr,opposre,opposser,oppsoer,poposer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for opposer

Misspelling Variants of "opposer"

opopser7oposer6oppoesr7opposerr8opposre7opposser8oppsoer7poposer7
Misspelling Variants of "opposer"

Frequency rank: #5,373 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "opposer"?
"opposer" is spelled O-P-P-O-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.po.ze\.
What does "opposer" mean?
As a verb, "opposer" means: Mettre une chose vis-à-vis d’une autre, ou en placer plusieurs de manière à faire contraste.
What words are commonly confused with "opposer"?
"opposer" is commonly confused with "opposera", "opposé", "opposa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "opposer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "opposer" is \ɔ.po.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "opposer" come from?
"opposer" 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.