oficio

/[oˈfisjo]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,930

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

oficio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ocupación o profesión de una persona, aquello a lo que se dedica para ganarse la vida, en especial si se relaciona con labores manuales o artesanales. Pronounced [oˈfisjo]. It ranks #4,930 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Ovidio and omitió.

Key facts for oficio
PropertyValue
Headwordoficio
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[oˈfisjo]
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,930
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of oficio in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for oficio is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈfisjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,930 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for oficio, with forms such as "foicio", "ofciio", and "officio". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Ovidio", "omitió", "ofreció", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is oficio, spelled O-F-I-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ocupación o profesión de una persona, aquello a lo que se dedica para ganarse la vida, en especial si se relaciona con labores manuales o artesanales.
  2. 2
    Cargo que por delegación de una autoridad se desempeña.
  3. 3
    Comunicación, documento o informe escrito presentado por una dependencia pública a otra autoridad civil.
  4. 4
    Función, tarea o servicio que presta una cosa.
  5. 5
    Despacho o salón donde trabaja un empleado o funcionario.
  6. 6
    Ceremonia religiosa y, en particular, el oficio divino o la liturgia de las horas, la oración especial que, en el catolicismo, se hace en determinadas horas del día.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: foicio,ofciio,officio,oficcio,oficoi,ofiico,ofisio,oifcio

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oficio

Misspelling Variants of "oficio"

foicio6ofciio6officio7oficcio7oficoi6ofiico6ofisio6oifcio6
Misspelling Variants of "oficio"

Frequency rank: #4,930 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oficio"?
"oficio" is spelled O-F-I-C-I-O. The IPA pronunciation is [oˈfisjo].
What does "oficio" mean?
As a noun, "oficio" means: Ocupación o profesión de una persona, aquello a lo que se dedica para ganarse la vida, en especial si se relaciona con labores manuales o artesanales.
What words are commonly confused with "oficio"?
"oficio" is commonly confused with "Ovidio", "omitió", "ofreció". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "oficio"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "oficio" is [oˈfisjo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "oficio" come from?
"oficio" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.