official language
"official-language" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“official language” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A language afforded an elevated status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction, typically for government use.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | official language |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “official language” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for official language is 17 letters long, classified as a noun. 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: "A language afforded an elevated status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction, typically for government use.".
Zero misspellings are on record for official language in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct English form is official language, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L- -L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1A language afforded an elevated status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction, typically for government use.
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.
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Using “official language”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L- -L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.