opvangen
The verdict
“opvangen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attraper, saisir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-opvangen · opvangen · French
opvangen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opvangen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
opvangen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for opvangen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is opvangen, spelled O-P-V-A-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Attraper, saisir.
- 2Recueillir.
- 3Capter, intercepter.
- 4Companser, parer (à), pallier.
- 5Percevoir, entendre.
- 6Soutenir, entourer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how opvangen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
een bal opvangen
het vet opvangen
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.