oppressée
\ɔ.pʁe.se\
The verdict
“oppressée” is uncommon French (frequency #71,755 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,755
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de oppressé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oppressee · oppressée · French
oppressée · rank #71,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,755
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ophtalmique
Nearest frequency peer: ophtalmique (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « oppressée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- okada
okada
28,248 corpus weight
- ophtalmique
ophtalmique
28,247 corpus weight
- oppressée
oppressée
28,246 corpus weight
- oraisons
oraisons
28,245 corpus weight
- orthopédiste
orthopédiste
28,243 corpus weight
- Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate
28,241 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oppressée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oppressée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.pʁe.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oppressée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oppressée is uncommon French at frequency #71,755 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.pʁe.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de oppressé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oppressée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 oppressée, spelled O-P-P-R-E-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de oppressé.
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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