opter
\ɔp.te\
The verdict
“opter” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,952. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,952
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Choisir entre deux ou plusieurs choses qu’on ne peut avoir ensemble, entre deux ou plusieurs partis pour l’un desquels il faut se déterminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opter · opter · French
opter · rank #15,952 · 5 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,952
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Néerlandaise
Nearest frequency peer: Néerlandaise (-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 « opter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- noyé
noyé
84,052 corpus weight
- nuisibles
nuisibles
84,051 corpus weight
- Néerlandaise
Néerlandaise
84,050 corpus weight
- opter
opter
84,049 corpus weight
- oriente
oriente
84,048 corpus weight
- orphelin
orphelin
84,047 corpus weight
What this shows « opter » 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 | opter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔp.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « opter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around opter (IPA \ɔp.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,952 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for opter, with forms such as "opetr", "oppter", and "opterr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "ôté", "oser", "ôter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is opter, spelled O-P-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Choisir entre deux ou plusieurs choses qu’on ne peut avoir ensemble, entre deux ou plusieurs partis pour l’un desquels il faut se déterminer.
- 2Décider de quitter les territoires annexés par l'Allemagne à la suite de la guerre franco-allemande de 1870 afin de conserver la nationalité française.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Amandine Del a opté pour une autre solution.
Mais Pompée est battu à la bataille de Pharsale, et Brutus opte alors pour César, qui finit par le considérer comme son fils et le nomme gouverneur de la Gaule Cisalpine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opetr
- oppter
- opterr
- optre
- otper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of opter - 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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