occupèrent
\o.ky.pɛʁ\
The verdict
“occupèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #50,399 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,399
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de occuper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occuperent · occupèrent · French
occupèrent · rank #50,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,399
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Oakley
Nearest frequency peer: Oakley (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « occupèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- néolibérale
néolibérale
49,605 corpus weight
- néonicotino…
néonicotinoïdes
49,604 corpus weight
- Oakley
Oakley
49,603 corpus weight
- occupèrent
occupèrent
49,602 corpus weight
- oppressant
oppressant
49,601 corpus weight
- organisatio…
organisationnelles
49,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « occupèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occupèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.ky.pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « occupèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
occupèrent is uncommon French at frequency #50,399 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \o.ky.pɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de occuper.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for occupèrent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 occupèrent, spelled O-C-C-U-P-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de occuper.
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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