s’occuper à
\s‿ɔ.ky.pe.ʁ‿a\
The verdict
“s’occuper à” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travailler à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-occuper-a · s’occuper à · French
s’occuper à · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | s’occuper à |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɔ.ky.pe.ʁ‿a\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’occuper à » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’occuper à is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿ɔ.ky.pe.ʁ‿a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Travailler à quelque chose.".
s’occuper à has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is s’occuper à, spelled S-’-O-C-C-U-P-E-R- -À.
Definition
- 1Travailler à quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how s’occuper à appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’occupe à son jardin.
Tout le jour il s’occupe à lire.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.