occuper
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,091
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
occuper is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre possession de ; conserver en sa possession. Pronounced \ɔ.ky.pe\. It ranks #2,091 in French word frequency. Often confused with occupés and occupez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occuper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.ky.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for occuper is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ky.pe\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,091 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for occuper, with forms such as "cocuper", "occpuer", and "occuepr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "occupés", "occupez", "occupera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is occuper, spelled O-C-C-U-P-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre possession de ; conserver en sa possession.
- 2Couvrir une période de temps.
- 3Avoir, en parlant d'une fonction ou d'un emploi.
- 4Recouvrir un lieu.
- 5Se saisir, prendre possession d’un domaine ; s’y établir.
- 6Habiter.
- 7Employer quelqu’un à ; donner de l’occupation.
- 8Remplir un espace ou une durée.
- 9Pour un juriste, se charger de quelque chose dans une affaire en justice.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cocuper,occpuer,occuepr,occuperr,occupper,occupre,ocucper,ocuper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for occuper
Misspelling Variants of "occuper"
Frequency rank: #2,091 in French
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