Occam
\ɔ.kam\
The verdict
“Occam” is uncommon French (frequency #86,973 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,973
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Ockham.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occam · Occam · French
Occam · rank #86,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,973
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obsédées
Nearest frequency peer: obsédées (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Occam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obstructive
obstructive
13,030 corpus weight
- obsédées
obsédées
13,029 corpus weight
- Occam
Occam
13,028 corpus weight
- occultent
occultent
13,027 corpus weight
- Oceania
Oceania
13,026 corpus weight
- OCR
OCR
13,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Occam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Occam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.kam\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Occam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Occam is uncommon French at frequency #86,973 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɔ.kam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Ockham.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Occam, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Occam, spelled O-C-C-A-M.
Definition
- 1Variante de Ockham.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Occam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il existe sept Quodlibets de Guillaume d’Occam.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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