opprobre
French, noun/ɔ.pʁɔbʁ/
opprobre is spelled O-P-P-R-O-B-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Opprobre is a French masculine noun meaning “opprobrium, infamy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Très grande honte publique ; déshonneur”.
What does opprobre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineopprobrium, infamy
jeter l'opprobre sur quelque chose
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Très grande honte publique ; déshonneur. 2. État d’abjection. 3. Le génocide suscite indéniablement une opprobre particulière car il vise l’oblitération physique de groupes humains. – (Dictionnaire Reverso, s. d.) 4. Cela a commencé par une attaque de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, associant Valeurs Actuelles et l’hebdomadaire Marianne dans une même opprobre. – (Daniel Schneidermann, “Le journalisme selon Natacha Polony”, Gazette n° 671, 16 septembre 2020)
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of opprobre
- opprobres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce opprobre?
- /ɔ.pʁɔbʁ/
- \ɔ.pʁɔbʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to opprobre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is opprobre in French?
opprobre appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).