occupait
\o.ky.pɛ\
The verdict
“occupait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,207
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de occuper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occupait · occupait · French
occupait · rank #9,207 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,207
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obsession
Nearest frequency peer: obsession (-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 « occupait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- noyer
noyer
90,797 corpus weight
- nues
nues
90,796 corpus weight
- obsession
obsession
90,795 corpus weight
- occupait
occupait
90,794 corpus weight
- pairs
pairs
90,792 corpus weight
- paquets
paquets
90,791 corpus weight
What this shows « occupait » 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 | occupait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.ky.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « occupait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around occupait (IPA \o.ky.pɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,207 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de occuper.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for occupait, with forms such as "cocupait", "occpuait", and "occuapit". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "occupent", "occupant", "occupants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is occupait, spelled O-C-C-U-P-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de occuper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occupait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais seul de tous les existants, l’homme, en raison de la position centrale qui est la sienne, - et qui a fait dire à juste titre que la terre, séjour de l’homme, occupait le centre du monde, - et en vertu de son théomorphisme, a la possibilité de redevenir le Soi, de se théomorphiser.
Tout un commerce clandestin s’occupait de tailler les bois, de les débouturer et de les vendre sous le nom de « Riparia ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cocupait
- occpuait
- occuapit
- occupaitt
- occupati
- occupiat
- occuppait
- ocucpait
- ocupait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occupait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).