ocurre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,387
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
ocurre is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ocurrir. Pronounced [oˈkure]. It ranks #1,387 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ocurrió and ocurrir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocurre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oˈkure] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ocurre is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈkure]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,387 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for ocurre, with forms such as "courre", "occurre", and "ocrure". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "ocurrió", "ocurrir", "ocurren", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ocurre, spelled O-C-U-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ocurrir.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de ocurrir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: courre,occurre,ocrure,ocure,ocurer,oucrre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ocurre
Misspelling Variants of "ocurre"
Frequency rank: #1,387 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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