oppression
\ɔ.pʁe.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“oppression” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,817
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’opprimer et état de ce qui est opprimé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oppression · oppression · French
oppression · rank #11,817 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,817
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH only
Nearest frequency peer: only (-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 « oppression »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- occupants
occupants
88,187 corpus weight
- once
once
88,186 corpus weight
- only
only
88,185 corpus weight
- oppression
oppression
88,184 corpus weight
- orages
orages
88,183 corpus weight
- osent
osent
88,182 corpus weight
What this shows « oppression » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oppression |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.pʁe.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « oppression »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around oppression (IPA \ɔ.pʁe.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,817 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for oppression, with forms such as "opperssion", "oppresion", and "oppresison". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is oppression, spelled O-P-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’opprimer et état de ce qui est opprimé.
- 2Action d’opprimer et état de ce qui est opprimé.
- 3État de ce qui est oppressé.
- 4Influence négative du diable ou de ses démons sur une personne, pour la couper de Dieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oppression appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À peine l’indépendance de l’Amérique du Nord fut-elle proclamée, la paix conclue avec l’ancienne métropole, que ces hommes qui criaient si haut à la tyrannie, à l’oppression, qui réclamaient contre la violation du droit des gens, dont, disaient-ils, ils étaient victimes, organisèrent avec cet implacable sang-froid qu’ils tiennent de leur origine une chass…
Le cas de la société tibétaine d’avant 1950 illustre de façon tragique les lacunes d’une idéologie dogmatique bouddhiste gérée par de faillibles humains. Elle a conduit à une société féodale esclavagiste basée sur l’oppression de presque toute la population par les hiérarchies religieuse et aristocratique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opperssion
- oppresion
- oppresison
- oppressino
- oppressionn
- oppressoin
- opprression
- opprsesion
- opression
- oprpession
- popression
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oppression - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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