à l’occasion de

/\a l‿ɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ də\/ prep

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à l’occasion de is aFrenchprep. It means: Lorsque la possibilité, l’opportunité, le cas, etc., se présente. Pronounced \a l‿ɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ də\.

Key facts for à l’occasion de
PropertyValue
Headwordà l’occasion de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a l‿ɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ də\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à l’occasion 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 à l’occasion de is 15 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a l‿ɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ də\. 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: "Lorsque la possibilité, l’opportunité, le cas, etc., se présente.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à l’occasion 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 à l’occasion de, spelled À- -L-’-O-C-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
    Lorsque la possibilité, l’opportunité, le cas, etc., se présente.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à l’occasion de"?
"à l’occasion de" is spelled À- -L-’-O-C-C-A-S-I-O-N- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a l‿ɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ də\.
What does "à l’occasion de" mean?
As a prep, "à l’occasion de" means: Lorsque la possibilité, l’opportunité, le cas, etc., se présente.
How do you pronounce "à l’occasion de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à l’occasion de" is \a l‿ɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à l’occasion 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.