occlusive
/əˈkluːsɪv/
"occlusive" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“occlusive” is uncommon English (frequency #75,254 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,254
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That tends to occlude.
Corpus desk
Index EN-occlusive · occlusive · English
occlusive · rank #75,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,254
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH oblate
Nearest frequency peer: oblate (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “occlusive”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Nyack
Nyack
24,751 corpus weight
- Nylander
Nylander
24,750 corpus weight
- oblate
oblate
24,748 corpus weight
- occlusive
occlusive
24,747 corpus weight
- overworld
overworld
24,741 corpus weight
- Paganini
Paganini
24,739 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “occlusive” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occlusive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əˈkluːsɪv/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “occlusive” in English
Rare enough to double-check
occlusive is uncommon English at frequency #75,254 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /əˈkluːsɪv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That tends to occlude.".
occlusive has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 occlūsīvus. The correct English form is occlusive, spelled O-C-C-L-U-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1That tends to occlude.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occlūsīvus.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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