occident
/ˈɒksɪdənt/noun
occident is spelled O-C-C-I-D-E-N-T: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, occident means “The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of occident is occidents.
How many letters and syllables are in occident?
| Letters | 8: O-C-C-I-D-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 81,375th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is occident?
Occident appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce occident?
- UK /ˈɒksɪdənt/
Occident has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-occident.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of occident
- occidents plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does occident mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.
- 2
The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia and Africa.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Occident in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the :
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does occident come from?
From Middle English occident, from Old French occident, from Latin occidentem (“western sky, part of the sky in which the sun sets”), from occido (“go down, set”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).