occulte

Name: occulte, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɔ.kylt\

/\ɔ.kylt\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“occulte” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,614
frequency rank, French: 1,642
“O” headwords: 8
tracked misspellings: 3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est caché, secret ou mystérieux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-occulte · occulte · French

occulte · rank #19,614 · 8 variants · 3 confusables

FREQ-MID #19,614
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
VAR-MID 8 variants
BOOK-MID 1,642
PHOTO-FINISH négativement

Nearest frequency peer: négativement (-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.

noie

80,390
novice

80,389
négativement

80,388
occulte

80,387
opèrent

80,385
ost

80,384

What this shows « occulte » 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).

occulte vs occupé

57% similar

occulte vs occupée

71% similar

occulte vs occulter

88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for occulte
Property	Value
Headword	occulte
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\ɔ.kylt\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#19,614
Misspellings tracked	8
Confusable pairs	3
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « occulte »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.occultese place ici:

#19,614

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « négativement » (#19,613), « novice » (#19,612), « opèrent » (#19,616). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « occulte » est au #19,614. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around occulte (IPA \ɔ.kylt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,614 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for occulte, with forms such as "coculte", "occlute", and "occulet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "occupé", "occupée", "occulter", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is occulte, spelled O-C-C-U-L-T-E.

Definition

1
Qui est caché, secret ou mystérieux.
2
Qui est relatif à l’occultisme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how occulte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Avec tous les millions d'euros de commissions occultes et de fonds détournés que tu t'es goinfrés ces dernières années, tu es prié de payer ta tournée, et pas au Sidi Brahim : au Mouton Rothschild, minimum !
Quelque chose d’occulte et de méchant avait réveillé toutes les méfiances, toutes les craintes.

This word in other languages

occult(English)okkult(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

coculte
occlute
occulet
occullte
occultte
occutle
ocuclte
oculte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occulte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "occulte"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "occulte"?

"occulte" is spelled O-C-C-U-L-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.kylt\.

What does "occulte" mean?

As an adjective, "occulte" means: Qui est caché, secret ou mystérieux.

What words are commonly confused with "occulte"?

"occulte" is commonly confused with "occupé", "occupée", "occulter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "occulte"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "occulte" is \ɔ.kylt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "occulte" come from?

"occulte" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "occulte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

opèrent#19,616 natures#19,609 paresse#19,622 Meurthe#19,599

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

novice8 variants neveux8 variants piégée8 variants ration8 variants