occurrence
/əˈkɜɹ.əns/noun
occurrence is spelled O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is occurance: about 1,030 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Occurrence is a noun meaning “An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening”. The plural of occurrence is occurrences.
How many letters and syllables are in occurrence?
| Letters | 10: O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 6; the most searched, occurance, about 1,030 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell occurrence?
Occurrence is spelled O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E. 6 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is occurrence?
Occurrence appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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 occurrence?
- UK /əˈkʌɹ.əns/
- UK /əˈkɜː.ɹəns/
- US /əˈkɜɹ.əns/
Occurrence 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-occurrence.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with occurrence?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as occurrence from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹəns/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of occurrence
- occurrences plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does occurrence mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.
- 2
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Occurrence in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense actual instance where a situation arises:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | occurrence |
| German | Vorfall, Vorkommnis, Vorkommen, Auftreten |
| Portuguese | ocorrência, acontecimento |
| Spanish | acontecimiento, ocurrencia, suceso |
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 occurrence come from?
From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia. Morphologically occur + -ence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).