# secretariat

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ət/ · frequency rank #16,122

## Definitions
1. The office or department of a government secretary.
2. A kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia.
3. A subdivision within an organisation or a company that deals with office management and/or administrative tasks such as handling correspondence and telephone calls, scheduling appointments, administering invoices, etc., often attached to specific executives or specific departments

## Etymology
From French secrétariat.

## Easily confused with
- **secretarial** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/secretarial-vs-secretariat)

## Common misspellings (16)
`escretariat`, `sceretariat`, `seccretariat`, `secertariat`, `secreatriat`, `secretairat`, `secretarait`, `secretariatt`, `secretarita`, `secretarriat`, `secretraiat`, `secrettariat`, `secrretariat`, `secrteariat`, `sercetariat`, `ssecretariat`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/secretariat