opulent
\ɔ.py.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“opulent” is uncommon French (frequency #80,469 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,469
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est très riche, qui est dans l’opulence ou qui dénote l’opulence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opulent · opulent · French
opulent · rank #80,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,469
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orangées
Nearest frequency peer: orangées (+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 « opulent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obligeaient
obligeaient
19,536 corpus weight
- ocho
ocho
19,535 corpus weight
- officient
officient
19,534 corpus weight
- opulent
opulent
19,532 corpus weight
- orangées
orangées
19,531 corpus weight
- orignaux
orignaux
19,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « opulent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opulent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.py.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opulent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opulent is uncommon French at frequency #80,469 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.py.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for opulent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is opulent, spelled O-P-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est très riche, qui est dans l’opulence ou qui dénote l’opulence.
- 2Qui est ample, fourni et abondant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opulent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nom de la première localité rencontrée en entrant par le sud sur cet opulent territoire du Vouzinois sonne mal, avouons-le : Pauvres !
[…], mais on peut aussi être tout à la fois très riche et très malheureux, car l'argent ne donne ni la santé, ni le contentement de soi-même, et il ne préserve pas de l’ennui, cette plaie des oisifs opulents.
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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