occupés
\ɔ.ky.pe\
The verdict
“occupés” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,211. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,211
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de occupé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-occupes · occupés · French
occupés · rank #7,211 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,211
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occidental
Nearest frequency peer: occidental (-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 “occupés”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nettoyage
nettoyage
92,792 corpus weight
- occidental
occidental
92,791 corpus weight
- occupés
occupés
92,790 corpus weight
- pair
pair
92,789 corpus weight
- passionné
passionné
92,788 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographies
92,787 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “occupés” 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 | occupés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ky.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “occupés” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around occupés (IPA \ɔ.ky.pe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,211 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de occupé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for occupés, with forms such as "cocupés", "occpués", and "occupes". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "occupez", "occupons", "occupé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is occupés, spelled O-C-C-U-P-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de occupé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how occupés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si bien que, au fur et à mesure que les Allemands évacuaient les pays occupés, les bolchevistes russes les occupaient avec leurs troupes.
Le moindre cacographe est membre d’une société savante, et ceux qui ne savent rien ou ne peuvent pas écrire comptent les fontaines de Paris, examinent les couleurs des numéros que le préfet impose aux maisons, et se prétendent occupés de statistique ; car la statistique est devenue à la mode, et c’est une position que de statistiquer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cocupés
- occpués
- occupes
- occuppés
- occupsé
- occupéss
- occuéps
- ocucpés
- ocupés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of occupés - 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 "occupés", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 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 "occupés". Here's where to go from here.
- "occupés" maps to 9 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "occupez". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,211 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.