occidentale
\ɔk.si.dɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“occidentale” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,696. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,696
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de occidental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occidentale · occidentale · French
occidentale · rank #4,696 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,696
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH mécanisme
Nearest frequency peer: mécanisme (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « occidentale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- monuments
monuments
95,308 corpus weight
- moyennes
moyennes
95,307 corpus weight
- mécanisme
mécanisme
95,306 corpus weight
- occidentale
occidentale
95,305 corpus weight
- parfum
parfum
95,304 corpus weight
- passages
passages
95,303 corpus weight
What this shows « occidentale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occidentale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔk.si.dɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « occidentale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around occidentale (IPA \ɔk.si.dɑ̃.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,696 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de occidental.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for occidentale, with forms such as "cocidentale", "occdientale", and "occiddentale". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "occidentaux", "occidentales", "occidental", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is occidentale, spelled O-C-C-I-D-E-N-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de occidental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occidentale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vallée de l’oued Tilatou (ou el Kantara) marque la limite occidentale du massif, elle constitue une zone de contact entre l’Aurès stricto sensu et les monts du Bélezma.
Il avait trouvé sur une carte un ancien tracé de chemins qui reliait les bassins miniers de l’Oural aux basses terres de Sibérie occidentale et au fleuve Ienisseï, à travers les steppes du Kirghizistan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cocidentale
- occdientale
- occiddentale
- occidenatle
- occidenntale
- occidentael
- occidentalle
- occidentlae
- occidenttale
- occidetnale
- occidnetale
- occiedntale
- ocicdentale
- ocidentale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occidentale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).