ocorre

verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,857

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

ocorre is aPortugueseverb. It means: Terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ocorrer. It ranks #1,857 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with Onofre and ocorrer.

Key facts for ocorre
PropertyValue
Headwordocorre
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,857
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ocorre in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for ocorre is 6 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #1,857 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ocorrer.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for ocorre, with forms such as "coorre", "occorre", and "ocore". 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, "Onofre", "ocorrer", 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 Portuguese form is ocorre, spelled O-C-O-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ocorrer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: coorre,occorre,ocore,ocorer,ocrore,oocrre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ocorre

Misspelling Variants of "ocorre"

coorre6occorre7ocore5ocorer6ocrore6oocrre6
Misspelling Variants of "ocorre"

Frequency rank: #1,857 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ocorre"?
"ocorre" is spelled O-C-O-R-R-E.
What does "ocorre" mean?
As a verb, "ocorre" means: Terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo ocorrer.
What words are commonly confused with "ocorre"?
"ocorre" is commonly confused with "Onofre", "ocorrer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "ocorre" come from?
"ocorre" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter O in our Portuguese index:

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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.