occurrence
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | occurrence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ky.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Événement, situation étant survenue.
- 2(Peut-être sous l'influence de l'homonyme anglais) Fait de survenir.
- 3Se dit de deux fêtes qui tombent le même jour.
- 4Apparition d'une unité linguistique (mot, locution, intonation, etc.) dans un corpus.
- 5Unité linguistique dont on constate la présence dans un texte ou un corpus.
- 6Fréquence d'une unité linguistique dans un corpus.
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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"
Frequency rank: #7,469 in French
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