officialdom
/əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm/
"officialdom" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“officialdom” is uncommon English (frequency #68,496 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,496
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The people elected to government or employed in the civil service.
Corpus desk
Index EN-officialdom · officialdom · English
officialdom · rank #68,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,496
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH onboarding
Nearest frequency peer: onboarding (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “officialdom”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nyan
nyan
31,511 corpus weight
- obfuscate
obfuscate
31,508 corpus weight
- officialdom
officialdom
31,505 corpus weight
- onboarding
onboarding
31,503 corpus weight
- Ostend
Ostend
31,498 corpus weight
- outtake
outtake
31,497 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “officialdom” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | officialdom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “officialdom” in English
Rare enough to double-check
officialdom is uncommon English at frequency #68,496 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for officialdom, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From official + -dom. The correct English form is officialdom, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L-D-O-M.
Definition
- 1The people elected to government or employed in the civil service.
- 2The state of being official
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how officialdom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Magazine staffer:] In the bag may be the next chief—a wedding to one of officialdom's family will assure certainty.
Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.
Etymology
From official + -dom.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).