occurrence
French, noun/ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s/
occurrence is spelled O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E (10 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Occurrence is a French feminine noun meaning “occurrence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Événement, situation étant survenue”.
What does occurrence mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineoccurrence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Événement, situation étant survenue. 2. (Peut-être sous l'influence de l'homonyme anglais) Fait de survenir. 3. Se dit de deux fêtes qui tombent le même jour. 4. Apparition d'une unité linguistique (mot, locution, intonation, etc.) dans un corpus.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of occurrence
- occurrences plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce occurrence?
- /ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s/
- \ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s\
- [o.ky.ʁɑ̃s]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to occurrence
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is occurrence in French?
occurrence appears 8.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).