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opposum

opposum is the misspelling of opossum.

Meaning of opossum

Noun

opossum (plural opossums)

  1. Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.
    Synonyms:
    didelphid, possum

Questions about opposum

What is opposum the misspelling of?
Opposum is the misspelling of opossum.

Words near opposum in the dictionary

  1. oppositive case
  2. oppositively
  3. oppositiveness
  4. oppositives
  5. opposits
  6. opposum
  7. opposure
  8. oppress
  9. oppress'd
  10. oppressed
  11. oppressedst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: opposum (page history and authors); opossum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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