occipital
\ɔk.si.pi.tal\
The verdict
“occipital” is uncommon French (frequency #66,168 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,168
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à l’occiput.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occipital · occipital · French
occipital · rank #66,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,168
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obstruer
Nearest frequency peer: obstruer (-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 « occipital »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nourrira
nourrira
33,837 corpus weight
- obstruer
obstruer
33,834 corpus weight
- occipital
occipital
33,833 corpus weight
- odieuses
odieuses
33,832 corpus weight
- odo
odo
33,831 corpus weight
- Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest
33,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « occipital » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occipital |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔk.si.pi.tal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « occipital » en français
Rare enough to double-check
occipital is uncommon French at frequency #66,168 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔk.si.pi.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient à l’occiput.".
occipital has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is occipital, spelled O-C-C-I-P-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à l’occiput.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occipital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’os occipital.
Muscles, sinus occipitaux.
This word in other languages
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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