occulter
\ɔ.kyl.te\
The verdict
“occulter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,157
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éclipser, cacher, masquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occulter · occulter · French
occulter · rank #31,157 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obsolescence
Nearest frequency peer: obsolescence (-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 « occulter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oas
oas
68,847 corpus weight
- Ob
Ob
68,846 corpus weight
- obsolescence
obsolescence
68,845 corpus weight
- occulter
occulter
68,844 corpus weight
- ogives
ogives
68,843 corpus weight
- opaques
opaques
68,842 corpus weight
What this shows « occulter » 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 | occulter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.kyl.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « occulter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around occulter (IPA \ɔ.kyl.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,157 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for occulter, with forms such as "coculter", "occluter", and "occuletr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "occuper", "occulte", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 occulter, spelled O-C-C-U-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Éclipser, cacher, masquer.
- 2Masquer, faire oublier un fait.
- 3Dissimuler, camoufler volontairement.
- 4Taire, ne pas aborder, passer sous silence.
- 5Interdire (un local) à la lumière, aux regards extérieurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occulter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi, la Lune n’occultera pas entièrement le Soleil et produira une éclipse annulaire où la partie visible du Soleil prendra la forme d’un anneau.
L’occasion de saluer la recherche grâce à qui les personnes vivant avec le VIH peuvent avoir une espérance de vie similaire à celles des personnes séronégatives si elles prennent les traitements assez tôt et y ont accès. Mais ces progrès ne doivent pas occulter le fait que le virus continue de faire des ravages.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- coculter
- occluter
- occuletr
- occullter
- occulterr
- occultre
- occultter
- occutler
- ocuclter
- oculter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occulter - 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
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