occupaient
\o.ky.pɛ\
The verdict
“occupaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,355
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de occuper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occupaient · occupaient · French
occupaient · rank #19,355 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,355
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obsolète
Nearest frequency peer: obsolète (-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 « occupaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nicotine
nicotine
80,649 corpus weight
- notificatio…
notifications
80,648 corpus weight
- obsolète
obsolète
80,647 corpus weight
- occupaient
occupaient
80,646 corpus weight
- Olympia
Olympia
80,645 corpus weight
- ordonnée
ordonnée
80,644 corpus weight
What this shows « occupaient » 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 | occupaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.ky.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « occupaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around occupaient (IPA \o.ky.pɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,355 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de occuper.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for occupaient, with forms such as "cocupaient", "occpuaient", and "occuapient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "occupent", "occupant", "occupait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is occupaient, spelled O-C-C-U-P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de occuper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occupaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si bien que, au fur et à mesure que les Allemands évacuaient les pays occupés, les bolchevistes russes les occupaient avec leurs troupes.
En ces temps, la cour royale de Nyanza vivait au son des grands tambours ingoma résonnant du matin au soir pour rythmer la journée du roi. Leurs pulsations se mêlaient aux chants mélodieux des bergers qui s’occupaient des Inyambo, ces vaches ankolé aux longues cornes en forme de lyre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cocupaient
- occpuaient
- occuapient
- occupaeint
- occupaiennt
- occupaientt
- occupaietn
- occupainet
- occupiaent
- occuppaient
- ocucpaient
- ocupaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occupaient - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).