occiput
/ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt/
"occiput" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“occiput” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The back part of the head or skull.
Corpus desk
Index EN-occiput · occiput · English
occiput · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | occiput |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “occiput” in English
Rare enough to double-check
occiput is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The back part of the head or skull.".
No misspelling variants are generated for occiput in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin occiput (“the back part of the head”). Compare sinciput. The correct English form is occiput, spelled O-C-C-I-P-U-T.
Definition
- 1The back part of the head or skull.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occiput appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes, and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput.
He wore a large white cotton Nubian shirt, trimmed with red pompons, and shaved his head, except for one lock at the occiput ‘by which Mohammed lifts you up on Judgement Day’.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occiput (“the back part of the head”). Compare sinciput.
This word in other languages
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.