employé de bureau
\ɑ̃.plwɑ.je d(ə.)by.ʁo\
The verdict
“employé de bureau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Salarié travaillant dans un bureau, sans fonction de commandement ou de décision, pour effectuer des tâches de nature administrative, telles qu’écritures, dactylographie, enregistrement, transcript...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | employé de bureau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.plwɑ.je d(ə.)by.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “employé de bureau” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
employé de bureau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.plwɑ.je d(ə.)by.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for employé de bureau, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is employé de bureau, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-É- -D-E- -B-U-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Salarié travaillant dans un bureau, sans fonction de commandement ou de décision, pour effectuer des tâches de nature administrative, telles qu’écritures, dactylographie, enregistrement, transcription, tri et rangement de documents, secrétariat.
- 2Employés du secteur privé qualifiés ou non, affectés à des tâches d’administration générale, d’administration des achats et des ventes, de contentieux, ou de gestion du personnel, ne faisant pas appel à des techniques comptables ou financières.
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 “employé de bureau”
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- The one correct French spelling is E-M-P-L-O-Y-É- -D-E- -B-U-R-E-A-U - 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.