oficio
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oficio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈfisjo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Ocupación 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.
- 2Cargo que por delegación de una autoridad se desempeña.
- 3Comunicación, documento o informe escrito presentado por una dependencia pública a otra autoridad civil.
- 4Función, tarea o servicio que presta una cosa.
- 5Despacho o salón donde trabaja un empleado o funcionario.
- 6Ceremonia 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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: foicio,ofciio,officio,oficcio,oficoi,ofiico,ofisio,oifcio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "oficio"
Frequency rank: #4,930 in Spanish
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