Offizin
[ɔfiˈt͡siːn]
The verdict
“Offizin” is uncommon German (frequency #83,121 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,121
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbeitsraum einer Apotheke beziehungsweise (veraltet) die Apotheke selbst
Corpus desk
Index DE-offizin · Offizin · German
Offizin · rank #83,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,121
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH olympisch
Nearest frequency peer: olympisch (+2 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Offizin“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Oberwiesent…
Oberwiesenthal
16,885 corpus weight
- Observatory
Observatory
16,883 corpus weight
- Offizin
Offizin
16,880 corpus weight
- olympisch
olympisch
16,878 corpus weight
- Omelett
Omelett
16,877 corpus weight
- ong
ong
16,876 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Offizin“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Offizin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔfiˈt͡siːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Offizin“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Offizin is uncommon German at frequency #83,121 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɔfiˈt͡siːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Offizin in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Offizin, spelled O-F-F-I-Z-I-N.
Definition
- 1Arbeitsraum einer Apotheke beziehungsweise (veraltet) die Apotheke selbst
- 2Betrieb, der Druckschriften herstellt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Offizin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wie sich jetzt bei der Reprivatisierung der Offizin herausstellt, sind diese orientalischen Schriften in der Nachkriegszeit bis auf einige kyrillische Alphabete verschwunden.“
„Also nicht nur die „berühmten Söhne“, sondern auch die Offizin des Gustav Kühn haben entscheidend zur Bekanntheit der Stadt beigetragen.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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