opposer
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opposer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.po.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Mettre une chose vis-à-vis d’une autre, ou en placer plusieurs de manière à faire contraste.
- 2Placer une chose de manière qu’elle fasse obstacle à une autre.
- 3Mettre en comparaison, en opposition ou en parallèle.
- 4Se mettre en opposition face à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un.
- 5Déclarer 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"
Frequency rank: #5,373 in French
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