office
\ɔ.fis\
The verdict
“office” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,047 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,047
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fonction, emploi dont on doit s’acquitter.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “office” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for office is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for office, with forms such as "fofice", "offcie", and "officce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is office, spelled O-F-F-I-C-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fofice,offcie,officce,offiec,ofice,ofifce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of office - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “office”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-F-F-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔ.fis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “offre” - see the side-by-side comparison. office vs offre
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.