official residence

/[…]/ noun

The verdict

“official residence” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
18
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: das Gebäude, in dem eine Behörde oder ein Amtsträger arbeitet

Key facts for official residence
PropertyValue
Headwordofficial residence
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “official residence” sits in German frequency

official residence falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for official residence is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "das Gebäude, in dem eine Behörde oder ein Amtsträger arbeitet".

No misspelling variants are generated for official residence in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 official residence, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L- -R-E-S-I-D-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    das Gebäude, in dem eine Behörde oder ein Amtsträger arbeitet

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "official residence"?
"official residence" is spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L- -R-E-S-I-D-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "official residence" mean?
As a noun, "official residence" means: das Gebäude, in dem eine Behörde oder ein Amtsträger arbeitet
How do you pronounce "official residence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "official residence" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "official residence" come from?
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Using “official residence”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L- -R-E-S-I-D-E-N-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.