occidentaux
\ɔk.si.dɑ̃.to\
The verdict
“occidentaux” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,682. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,682
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de occidental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occidentaux · occidentaux · French
occidentaux · rank #5,682 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,682
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nue
Nearest frequency peer: nue (-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 « occidentaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Naples
Naples
94,322 corpus weight
- nucléaires
nucléaires
94,321 corpus weight
- nue
nue
94,320 corpus weight
- occidentaux
occidentaux
94,319 corpus weight
- occupent
occupent
94,318 corpus weight
- offensive
offensive
94,317 corpus weight
What this shows « occidentaux » 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 | occidentaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔk.si.dɑ̃.to\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « occidentaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around occidentaux (IPA \ɔk.si.dɑ̃.to\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,682 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de occidental.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for occidentaux, with forms such as "cocidentaux", "occdientaux", and "occiddentaux". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "occidental", "occidentale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is occidentaux, spelled O-C-C-I-D-E-N-T-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de occidental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how occidentaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un de ces quartiers « hyper-sécurisés » et quelque peu aseptisés que l'on retrouve dans plusieurs capitales à l’étranger, avec gardiens, terrains de sport et supermarchés remplis de produits occidentaux plantés au milieu des vastes villas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cocidentaux
- occdientaux
- occiddentaux
- occidenatux
- occidenntaux
- occidentauxx
- occidentaxu
- occidenttaux
- occidentuax
- occidetnaux
- occidnetaux
- occiedntaux
- ocicdentaux
- ocidentaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occidentaux - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).