occurrence

/\ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,469

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

occurrence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Événement, situation étant survenue. Pronounced \ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s\. It ranks #7,469 in French word frequency. Often confused with occurrences and occurence.

Key facts for occurrence
PropertyValue
Headwordoccurrence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,469
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of occurrence in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for occurrence is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,469 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for occurrence, with forms such as "cocurrence", "occrurence", and "occurernce". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "occurrences", "occurence", 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 occurrence, spelled O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Événement, situation étant survenue.
  2. 2
    (Peut-être sous l'influence de l'homonyme anglais) Fait de survenir.
  3. 3
    Se dit de deux fêtes qui tombent le même jour.
  4. 4
    Apparition d'une unité linguistique (mot, locution, intonation, etc.) dans un corpus.
  5. 5
    Unité linguistique dont on constate la présence dans un texte ou un corpus.
  6. 6
    Fréquence d'une unité linguistique dans un corpus.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cocurrence,occrurence,occurernce,occurrecne,occurrencce,occurrenec,occurrennce,occurrnece,ocucrrence,ocurrence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for occurrence

Misspelling Variants of "occurrence"

cocurrence10occrurence10occurernce10occurrecne10occurrencce11occurrenec10occurrennce11occurrnece10
Misspelling Variants of "occurrence"

Frequency rank: #7,469 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "occurrence"?
"occurrence" is spelled O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s\.
What does "occurrence" mean?
As a noun, "occurrence" means: Événement, situation étant survenue.
What words are commonly confused with "occurrence"?
"occurrence" is commonly confused with "occurrences", "occurence". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "occurrence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "occurrence" is \ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "occurrence" come from?
"occurrence" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.