occultant
\o.kyl.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“occultant” is uncommon French (frequency #62,482 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,482
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’oppose au passage de la lumière, et donc des regards.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occultant · occultant · French
occultant · rank #62,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,482
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occultée
Nearest frequency peer: occultée (+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 « occultant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nuira
nuira
37,524 corpus weight
- observatrice
observatrice
37,521 corpus weight
- occultant
occultant
37,519 corpus weight
- occultée
occultée
37,518 corpus weight
- occuperons
occuperons
37,517 corpus weight
- Oldman
Oldman
37,515 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « occultant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occultant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.kyl.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « occultant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
occultant is uncommon French at frequency #62,482 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.kyl.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui s’oppose au passage de la lumière, et donc des regards.".
occultant has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is occultant, spelled O-C-C-U-L-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui s’oppose au passage de la lumière, et donc des regards.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occultant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le moyen le plus efficace est bien évidemment d’isoler son logement. En commençant par la toiture, les murs et les fenêtres. Il faut une ventilation efficace, des volets à l’extérieur et un rideau bateau pour vos fenêtres à l’intérieur, de préférence occultant pour garder la fraîcheur en été.
Après le store enrouleur Fyrtur, le modèle occultant, voici la déclinaison semi-transparente nommée Kadrilj, un peu moins chère.
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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