offence
noun
offence is a noun meaning “UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-F-F-E-N-C-E, and it appears 9.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of offence is offences.
What does offence mean?
noun
- 1
UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of offence
- offences plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is offence?
Offence appears 9.1 times per million words in written English, the 7,553rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with offence
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
How do you abbreviate offence?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of offence: off..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).