home office

noun

"home-office" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“home office” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The headquarters of an organization.

Corpus desk

Index EN-home-office · home office · English

home office · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for home office
PropertyValue
Headwordhome office
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “home office” in English

home officesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

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

Rare enough to double-check

home office is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for home office in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is home office, spelled H-O-M-E- -O-F-F-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The headquarters of an organization.
  2. 2
    A room, in a person's home, equipped as an office so that the person may work from home.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how home office appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I received a directive from home office.
  2. In this type of company, the development of capabilities and the decisions to diffuse them globally are essentially made in the company's home office.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "home office"?
"home office" is spelled H-O-M-E- -O-F-F-I-C-E.
What does "home office" mean?
As a noun, "home office" means: The headquarters of an organization.
What language does "home office" come from?
"home office" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list