occiput
\ɔk.si.pyt\
The verdict
“occiput” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Os postérieur et inférieur de la tête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occiput · occiput · French
occiput · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occiput |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔk.si.pyt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « occiput » en français
Rare enough to double-check
occiput is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔk.si.pyt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
occiput doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is occiput, spelled O-C-C-I-P-U-T.
Definition
- 1Os postérieur et inférieur de la tête.
- 2Tête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occiput appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La presqu’île de Portland, vue en plan géométral, offre l’aspect d’une tête d’oiseau dont le bec est tourné vers l’océan et l’occiput vers Weymouth ; l’isthme est le cou.
Chaque fois qu’il était question d’un départ parmi les gens de Sólanto, il convoquait le coupable, lui prédisait les pires malheurs, puis, à bout d’arguments, lui promenait sous le nez une revue américaine, parue en 1907, dans laquelle un célèbre anthropologiste, attaché au Museum of Natural History, prouvait dans un long article que l’Italien du Sud, ave…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.