Français homophones

occuper/occupé/occupée/occupées/occupés

5 spellings (occuper, occupé, occupée, occupées, occupés) share /\ɔ.ky.pe\/ - one of the denser French clusters here. Size rank #101 of 9,139 French groups.

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A dense sound cluster

A 5-way cluster around /\ɔ.ky.pe\/ is uncommon in the French extract (size rank #101 of 9,139). Treat each spelling as its own headword and check the definitions below before writing.

How the spellings diverge

  • Shared stem "occup" then splits - "occuper" (7 letters) vs "occupé" (6).
  • Shared stem "occup" then splits - "occuper" (7 letters) vs "occupée" (7).
  • Shared stem "occup" then splits - "occuper" (7 letters) vs "occupées" (8).
  • Shared stem "occup" then splits - "occuper" (7 letters) vs "occupés" (7).
  • Shared stem "occupé" then splits - "occupé" (6 letters) vs "occupée" (7).
  • Shared stem "occupé" then splits - "occupé" (6 letters) vs "occupées" (8).
  • Shared stem "occupé" then splits - "occupé" (6 letters) vs "occupés" (7).
  • Shared stem "occupée" then splits - "occupée" (7 letters) vs "occupées" (8).
  • Single-letter fork: "occupée" keeps e, "occupés" writes s at letter 7.
  • Shared stem "occupé" then splits - "occupées" (8 letters) vs "occupés" (7).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across occuper, occupé, occupée, occupées, occupés: copu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • occuper

    7 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVCVC

    Inventory ceopru · private er

  • occupé

    6 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVCV

    Inventory copué · private é

  • occupée

    7 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCVCVV

    Inventory ceopué · private eé

  • occupées

    8 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCVCVVC

    Inventory ceopsué · private esé

  • occupés

    7 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVCVC

    Inventory copsué · private sé

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "occuper" when you mean: Prendre possession de ; conserver en sa possession.
  • Write "occupé" when you mean: Où l’on a de l’occupation.
  • Write "occupée" when you mean: Féminin singulier de occupé.
  • Write "occupées" when you mean: Féminin pluriel de occupé.
  • Write "occupés" when you mean: Masculin pluriel de occupé.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • occuper ← cocuper · occpuer · occuepr · occuperr · occupper · occupre

Each spelling

occuper

verb · /\ɔ.ky.pe\/ · #2,091 frequency

Prendre possession de ; conserver en sa possession.

occupé

/\ɔ.ky.pe\/

Où l’on a de l’occupation.

occupée

/\ɔ.ky.pe\/

Féminin singulier de occupé.

occupées

/\ɔ.ky.pe\/

Féminin pluriel de occupé.

occupés

/\ɔ.ky.pe\/

Masculin pluriel de occupé.

Nearby French homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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