oppositions
\ɔ.po.zi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“oppositions” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,498. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,498
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de opposition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oppositions · oppositions · French
oppositions · rank #17,498 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,498
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH néfaste
Nearest frequency peer: néfaste (-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 « oppositions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nomenclature
nomenclature
82,506 corpus weight
- nouilles
nouilles
82,505 corpus weight
- néfaste
néfaste
82,504 corpus weight
- oppositions
oppositions
82,503 corpus weight
- oratoire
oratoire
82,502 corpus weight
- organisant
organisant
82,501 corpus weight
What this shows « oppositions » 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 | oppositions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.po.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #17,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « oppositions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around oppositions (IPA \ɔ.po.zi.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,498 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de opposition.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for oppositions, with forms such as "opopsitions", "opositions", and "oppoistions". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "opposition", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is oppositions, spelled O-P-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de opposition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oppositions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoique très nettement perceptibles dans le discours, ces oppositions théoriques servant à métaphoriser une frontière inaliénable fonctionnent à l’insu des malades, probablement aussi de la guérisseuse.
Elisabeth Borne n'a d'ailleurs pas hésité à placer les parlementaires face à leurs responsabilités : "Les oppositions sont largement d'accord pour rajouter des dépenses. Mais chaque fois que vous présentez des économies structurelles, vous avez une réticence forte. Ce n'est pas pour rien que j'ai dû passer par 49.3 la réforme des retraites", a-t-elle narr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opopsitions
- opositions
- oppoistions
- opposiitons
- oppositinos
- oppositionns
- oppositionss
- oppositiosn
- oppositoins
- opposittions
- oppossitions
- oppostiions
- oppsoitions
- popositions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oppositions - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).