office

/[…]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,205

in German word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

office is aGermannoun. It means: Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro Pronounced […]. It ranks #5,205 in German word frequency. Often confused with öffne and Öffis.

Key facts for office
PropertyValue
Headwordoffice
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,205
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of office in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for office is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,205 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for office, with forms such as "fofice", "offcie", and "officce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "öffne", "Öffis", "offline", and more, 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 German form is office, spelled O-F-F-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro
  2. 2
    Mehrheit von Arbeitsräumen, Gebäude mit solchen Räumen, Sitz eines Dienstleisters: Büro, Geschäftsstelle; Praxis, Kanzlei, Niederlassung
  3. 3
    Institution der staatlichen Verwaltung: Behörde, Amt; speziell, mit großen Anfangsbuchstaben: Bezeichnung einer bestimmten Behörde; Teil der Regierung (UK): Ministerium, Ministerialamt
  4. 4
    Personal einer Behörde oder eines Unternehmens: Büro
  5. 5
    verantwortungsvolle Stellung einer Person innerhalb einer Organisation; (öffentliches, staatliches) Amt
  6. 6
    das, was jemand tun muss: Aufgabe, Pflicht
  7. 7
    Tätigkeiten für jemand anderen: Dienst, Verrichtung
  8. 8
    kirchliches Ritual: Gottesdienst, Amt; Ehrendienst

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: fofice,offcie,officce,offiec,ofice,ofifce

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for office

Misspelling Variants of "office"

fofice6offcie6officce7offiec6ofice5ofifce6
Misspelling Variants of "office"

Frequency rank: #5,205 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "office"?
"office" is spelled O-F-F-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "office" mean?
As a noun, "office" means: Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro
What words are commonly confused with "office"?
"office" is commonly confused with "öffne", "Öffis", "offline". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "office"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "office" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "office" come from?
"office" is a German 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.