occupied
/ˈɑkjəpaɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
intj
Used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable.
verb
simple past and past participle of occupy
Example Sentences
- "The stall on the left is occupied."
- "She is occupied at the moment."
- "My father travelled to occupied Japan in December 1945."
- "As he creeps towards the main road, someone, another occupied former human, pokes their head around the corner, then calls to others in the strange language, pointing him out. Wheeler stops in his tracks. In another moment, ten or eleven non-people are advancing on him from the road. Two of them are carrying something with them, a limp, badly broken human— a normal human, Wheeler realises with some shock, like him."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑkjəpaɪd/
- British English: /ˈɒkjʊpaɪd/
Inflected Forms
more occupied (comparative)
most occupied (superlative)