opposition
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,368
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
opposition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Contraste dû à la comparaison de deux choses jugées particulièrement différentes, qui s’opposent. Pronounced \ɔ.po.zi.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,368 in French word frequency. Often confused with oppositions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opposition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.po.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for opposition is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.po.zi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,368 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for opposition, with forms such as "opopsition", "oposition", and "oppoistion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "oppositions", 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 opposition, spelled O-P-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contraste dû à la comparaison de deux choses jugées particulièrement différentes, qui s’opposent.
- 2Résistance.
- 3Ensemble des forces politiques adversaires du gouvernement en place.
- 4Recours judiciaire engagé par une personne contre une décision de justice alors qu’il n’a pas pu se défendre dans le procès ayant abouti à cette décision.
- 5Aspect d’un corps céleste se trouvant à 180 degrés du Soleil.
- 6Position respective des rois dans la finale, et en particulier situation dans laquelle les rois sont séparés d’un nombre impair de cases.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opopsition,oposition,oppoistion,opposiiton,oppositino,oppositionn,oppositoin,opposittion,oppossition,oppostiion,oppsoition,poposition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for opposition
Misspelling Variants of "opposition"
Frequency rank: #1,368 in French
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