occultation
\ɔ.kyl.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“occultation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,691
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disparition passagère d’un astre qui est caché par un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occultation · occultation · French
occultation · rank #48,691 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,691
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occaz
Nearest frequency peer: occaz (-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 « occultation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- noircir
noircir
51,313 corpus weight
- nominatives
nominatives
51,312 corpus weight
- occaz
occaz
51,311 corpus weight
- occultation
occultation
51,310 corpus weight
- Odilon
Odilon
51,309 corpus weight
- offrirai
offrirai
51,308 corpus weight
What this shows « occultation » 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 | occultation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.kyl.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #48,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « occultation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around occultation (IPA \ɔ.kyl.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,691 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for occultation, with forms such as "cocultation", "occlutation", and "occulattion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "occupation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is occultation, spelled O-C-C-U-L-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Disparition passagère d’un astre qui est caché par un autre.
- 2Dissimulation d’une réalité ou d’une vérité.
- 3Interdiction d’une zone aux regards extérieurs, au moyen de panneaux, rideaux etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occultation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] je demande uniquement qu’un coin du ciel, rien qu’un petit coin, celui dans lequel s’opérera l’occultation, soit pur de tout nuage, et pendant combien de temps ? pendant quatre minutes seulement !
Entre les femmes et le libertinage, l’articulation est plus hésitante et « capricieuse » : il faut étudier les pratiques et les représentations pour faire la part des occultations vertueuses et des fabrications fantasmatiques, ….
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cocultation
- occlutation
- occulattion
- occulltation
- occultaiton
- occultatino
- occultationn
- occultatoin
- occultattion
- occulttaion
- occulttation
- occutlation
- ocucltation
- ocultation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occultation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).