occire
\ɔ(k).siʁ\
The verdict
“occire” is uncommon French (frequency #83,211 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,211
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Tuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occire · occire · French
occire · rank #83,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,211
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obtiendraient
Nearest frequency peer: obtiendraient (-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 « occire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ober
ober
16,793 corpus weight
- oblast
oblast
16,792 corpus weight
- obtiendraie…
obtiendraient
16,791 corpus weight
- occire
occire
16,790 corpus weight
- ohne
ohne
16,789 corpus weight
- onsen
onsen
16,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « occire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ(k).siʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « occire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
occire is uncommon French at frequency #83,211 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ(k).siʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ou Tuer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for occire in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 occire, spelled O-C-C-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1ou Tuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au second plan apparaît le mari trompé; brandissant son épée, il s’apprête à occire les deux tourtereaux.
Tout commence le jour des 11 ans de Harry, lorsque le géant Hagrid l’arrache aux griffes de son oncle et de sa tante, des méchants moldus — non-sorciers — et lui apprend qu’il a des pouvoirs, tout comme ses parents, occis par l’ignoble Voldemort.
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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