occurrence
/əˈkʌɹ.əns/
"occurrence" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“occurrence” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,097. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,097
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.
Corpus desk
Index EN-occurrence · occurrence · English
occurrence · rank #10,097 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,097
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 15,494
- PHOTO-FINISH offspring
Nearest frequency peer: offspring (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “occurrence”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- objection
objection
89,907 corpus weight
- obliged
obliged
89,906 corpus weight
- occurrence
occurrence
89,904 corpus weight
- offspring
offspring
89,903 corpus weight
- ou
ou
89,902 corpus weight
- outrageous
outrageous
89,901 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “occurrence” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occurrence |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈkʌɹ.əns/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “occurrence” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around occurrence (IPA /əˈkʌɹ.əns/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,097 among 15,494 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for occurrence, with forms such as "cocurrence", "occrurence", and "occurence". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia. Morphologically occur + -ence. The correct English form is occurrence, spelled O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.
- 2The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occurrence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundr…
The time interval of an occurrence—a temporal instantiation—is a single occasion. However, a series of such occasions can fall within a certain time interval; in this case we may represent the occurrence as a single situation (cf. I ran off and on for an hour, I ran and ran for an hour, I would run and then run some more).
Etymology
From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia. Morphologically occur + -ence.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cocurrence
- occrurence
- occurence
- occurernce
- occurrance
- occurrecne
- occurrencce
- occurrenec
- occurrennce
- occurrnece
- ocucrrence
- ocurrence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occurrence - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "occurrence", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.