occultent
\o.kylt\
The verdict
“occultent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,974 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,974
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de occulter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occultent · occultent · French
occultent · rank #86,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,974
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Occam
Nearest frequency peer: Occam (-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 « occultent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obstructive
obstructive
13,030 corpus weight
- obsédées
obsédées
13,029 corpus weight
- Occam
Occam
13,028 corpus weight
- occultent
occultent
13,027 corpus weight
- Oceania
Oceania
13,026 corpus weight
- OCR
OCR
13,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « occultent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occultent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.kylt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « occultent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
occultent is uncommon French at frequency #86,974 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \o.kylt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
occultent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 occultent, spelled O-C-C-U-L-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de occulter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de occulter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how occultent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils occultent ce triste don de la « double vue » qui les enlunette, ils oublient les apparentes faiblesses de leur regard.
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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