opportunité vs opportunités

Which to use

“opportunité” and “opportunités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#4,260
“opportunité” frequency rank: #7,470
“opportunités” frequency rank: 11730
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	opportunité	opportunités
Definition	Caractère de ce qui est opportun.	Pluriel de opportunité.

Same sound, different letters: opportunité vs opportunités

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. opportunité runs 11 letters (VCCVCCVCVCV) against opportunités's 12 (VCCVCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch

opportunité

12 ch

opportunités

Same sound, different spelling - opportunité / opportunités

This is the hard kind. opportunité and opportunités are pronounced identically (\ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.ni.te\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “opportunité” sits inside “opportunités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11730, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

opportunité is recorded at frequency rank #4,260, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.ni.te\. opportunités is at rank #7,470, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.ni.te\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 11730, this pair ranks #408,057 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of opportunité vs opportunités

Shared letters: inoprtué. Private to "opportunité": -. Private to "opportunités": s.

"opportunité" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCV · "opportunités" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "opportunité" for "opportunités" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\ɔ.pɔʁ.ty.ni.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "opportunité" vs "opportunités" - which ranks higher?

"opportunité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,260 in our French list, against #7,470 for "opportunités". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "opportunité" / "opportunités". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "opportunité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "opportunités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #408,057 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"opportunité" and "opportunités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "opportune vs opportunité". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #408,057 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.