oppressif
\ɔ.pʁe.sif\
The verdict
“oppressif” is uncommon French (frequency #66,177 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,177
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tend à opprimer, qui sert à opprimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oppressif · oppressif · French
oppressif · rank #66,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,177
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ondulation
Nearest frequency peer: ondulation (-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 « oppressif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- omoplates
omoplates
33,827 corpus weight
- OMT
OMT
33,826 corpus weight
- ondulation
ondulation
33,825 corpus weight
- oppressif
oppressif
33,824 corpus weight
- orbis
orbis
33,822 corpus weight
- orbitales
orbitales
33,821 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oppressif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oppressif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.pʁe.sif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oppressif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oppressif is uncommon French at frequency #66,177 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.pʁe.sif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui tend à opprimer, qui sert à opprimer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for oppressif, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 oppressif, spelled O-P-P-R-E-S-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui tend à opprimer, qui sert à opprimer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oppressif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Système oppressif.
Loi oppressive.
This word in other languages
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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