occupées
\ɔ.ky.pe\
The verdict
“occupées” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,196
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de occupé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occupees · occupées · French
occupées · rank #16,196 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,196
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nègres
Nearest frequency peer: nègres (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “occupées”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- NC
NC
83,808 corpus weight
- normalisati…
normalisation
83,807 corpus weight
- nègres
nègres
83,806 corpus weight
- occupées
occupées
83,805 corpus weight
- OOO
OOO
83,804 corpus weight
- originelle
originelle
83,803 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “occupées” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | occupées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ky.pe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “occupées” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around occupées (IPA \ɔ.ky.pe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,196 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de occupé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for occupées, with forms such as "cocupées", "occpuées", and "occupees". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "occuper", "occupés", "occupez", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is occupées, spelled O-C-C-U-P-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de occupé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how occupées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils allaient haricotant les restes du Grand-I-Vert, ceux des châteaux ; car, à eux deux, dans les années les plus occupées, les plus prospères, ils n’avaient jamais pu fabriquer en moyenne trois cents soixante brasses de corde.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cocupées
- occpuées
- occupees
- occupeés
- occuppées
- occupéess
- occupése
- occuépes
- ocucpées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occupées - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "occupées", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "occupées". Here's where to go from here.
- "occupées" maps to 9 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "occuper". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #16,196 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "O" letter cohort. O–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.