a l’ocasion de

/[alukaˈzjuðe]/ prep

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

a l’ocasion de is aFrenchprep. It means: À l’occasion de. Pronounced [alukaˈzjuðe].

Key facts for a l’ocasion de
PropertyValue
Headworda l’ocasion de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA[alukaˈzjuðe]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

a l’ocasion de is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for a l’ocasion de is 14 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alukaˈzjuðe]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "À l’occasion de.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for a l’ocasion de in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 French form is a l’ocasion de, spelled A- -L-’-O-C-A-S-I-O-N- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À l’occasion de.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "a l’ocasion de"?
"a l’ocasion de" is spelled A- -L-’-O-C-A-S-I-O-N- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [alukaˈzjuðe].
What does "a l’ocasion de" mean?
As a prep, "a l’ocasion de" means: À l’occasion de.
How do you pronounce "a l’ocasion de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "a l’ocasion de" is [alukaˈzjuðe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "a l’ocasion de" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.