office
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,047
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
office is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fonction, emploi dont on doit s’acquitter. Pronounced \ɔ.fis\. It ranks #2,047 in French word frequency. Often confused with offre and offices.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | office |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.fis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for office is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.fis\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,047 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for office, with forms such as "fofice", "offcie", and "officce". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "offre", "offices", "orifice", 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 French form is office, spelled O-F-F-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fonction, emploi dont on doit s’acquitter.
- 2Devoir que chacun est tenu de remplir dans la vie privée et sociale.
- 3Charge, emploi avec juridiction.
- 4Institution, organisme autonome qui est rattaché à un ministère.
- 5Assistance qu’on prête, service qu’on rend ; mauvais office : machination, cabale.
- 6Service de l’église, messe et prières publiques.
- 7Service de l’église, messe et prières publiques.
- 8Dans les maisons bourgeoises du xixᵉ siècle, pièce habituellement située entre la cuisine et la salle à manger, ou proche d'une de ses deux pièces. On y rangeait la vaisselle et le linge de table, on y préparait le service à table et si la place le permettait on y faisait manger les domestiques.
- 9Domestiques qui mangent à l’office dans une maison.
- 10Bureau.
- 11Contrat par lequel un libraire s’engage auprès d’un fournisseur à lui commander un certain volume de livres parmi les nouveautés et qui lui permet de renvoyer les invendus.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fofice,offcie,officce,offiec,ofice,ofifce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for office
Misspelling Variants of "office"
Frequency rank: #2,047 in French
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