OFCE
The verdict
“OFCE” is uncommon French (frequency #60,997 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,997
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme français indépendant de recherche, de prévision et d’évaluation des politiques publiques, dépendant de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ofce · OFCE · French
OFCE · rank #60,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,997
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ocarina
Nearest frequency peer: ocarina (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « OFCE »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- objecter
objecter
39,007 corpus weight
- obligeance
obligeance
39,006 corpus weight
- ocarina
ocarina
39,005 corpus weight
- OFCE
OFCE
39,004 corpus weight
- ondulées
ondulées
39,003 corpus weight
- ope
ope
39,002 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « OFCE » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OFCE |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « OFCE » en français
Rare enough to double-check
OFCE is uncommon French at frequency #60,997 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisme français indépendant de recherche, de prévision et d’évaluation des politiques publiques, dépendant de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for OFCE in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is OFCE, spelled O-F-C-E.
Definition
- 1Organisme français indépendant de recherche, de prévision et d’évaluation des politiques publiques, dépendant de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how OFCE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« On a ce paradoxe entre une activité largement affaiblie par les chocs macroéconomiques (la guerre en Ukraine, la crise énergétique, l’inflation, la Chine fermée, etc.) et le dynamisme du marché du travail », commente Mathieu Plane, économiste à l'Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE).
L’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE) est le centre de recherche en économie de Sciences Po.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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