opus magnum

/\ɔ.pys maɡ.nɔm\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

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opus magnum is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grand œuvre, chef-d’œuvre représentant l’accomplissement de la vie d’un artiste. Pronounced \ɔ.pys maɡ.nɔm\.

Key facts for opus magnum
PropertyValue
Headwordopus magnum
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.pys maɡ.nɔm\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

opus magnum is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for opus magnum is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.pys maɡ.nɔm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for opus magnum in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is opus magnum, spelled O-P-U-S- -M-A-G-N-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grand œuvre, chef-d’œuvre représentant l’accomplissement de la vie d’un artiste.
  2. 2
    Œuvre la plus importante d'un auteur.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "opus magnum"?
"opus magnum" is spelled O-P-U-S- -M-A-G-N-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.pys maɡ.nɔm\.
What does "opus magnum" mean?
As a noun, "opus magnum" means: Grand œuvre, chef-d’œuvre représentant l’accomplissement de la vie d’un artiste.
How do you pronounce "opus magnum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "opus magnum" is \ɔ.pys maɡ.nɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "opus magnum" come from?
"opus magnum" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.