occupation

\o.ky.pa.sjɔ̃\

/\o.ky.pa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“occupation” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,948
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’occuper militairement un pays, une région.

Corpus desk

Index FR-occupation · occupation · French

occupation · rank #3,948 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,948
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH observer

Nearest frequency peer: observer (-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 « occupation »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « occupation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

occupation vs occupations
91% similar
occupation vs occultation
82% similar

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

Key facts for occupation
PropertyValue
Headwordoccupation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.ky.pa.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,948
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « occupation »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).occupationse place ici:

#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 « observer » (#3,947), « nomination » (#3,946), « ose » (#3,950). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « occupation » est au #3,948. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around occupation (IPA \o.ky.pa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,948 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for occupation, with forms such as "cocupation", "occpuation", and "occuaption". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "occupations", "occultation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is occupation, spelled O-C-C-U-P-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’occuper militairement un pays, une région.
  2. 2
    Action de s’établir, de se saisir de.
  3. 3
    Le fait d’habiter.
  4. 4
    Ce à quoi on est occupé, soit momentanément, soit d’une manière fixe.
  5. 5
    Travail ; profession.
  6. 6
    Activité ne mettant pas en œuvre des capacités d’acquisition ou d’apprentissage de l’élève.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] si vous ne vous conformez pas aux usages dictés par la raison et par les besoins de l’occupation, je me verrai dans l’obligation, très désagréable pour moi, de demander à mes chefs que vous soyez relevé du poste.
  2. Ce fut la guerre civile dans toute son horreur, laquelle ne devait prendre fin que par l’occupation étrangère.

Antonyms

inoccupation

This word in other languages

occupation(English)ocupación(Español)Besatzung(Deutsch)ocupação(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cocupation
  • occpuation
  • occuaption
  • occupaiton
  • occupatino
  • occupationn
  • occupatoin
  • occupattion
  • occuppation
  • occuptaion
  • ocucpation
  • ocupation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occupation - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cocupation2occpuation2occuaption2occupaiton2occupatino2occupationn1occupatoin2occupattion1
Edit distance from "occupation"

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 "occupation"?
"occupation" is spelled O-C-C-U-P-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \o.ky.pa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "occupation" mean?
As a noun, "occupation" means: Action d’occuper militairement un pays, une région.
What words are commonly confused with "occupation"?
"occupation" is commonly confused with "occupations", "occultation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "occupation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "occupation" is \o.ky.pa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "occupation" come from?
"occupation" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

nomination#3,946souffrance#3,965supporters#3,966producteur#4,012

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

observer12 variantsmentionné12 variantsvoulaient12 variantsépreuves12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list