office

\ɔ.fis\

/\ɔ.fis\/ noun

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The verdict

“office” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,047
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonction, emploi dont on doit s’acquitter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-office · office · French

office · rank #2,047 · 6 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,047
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH marqué

Nearest frequency peer: marqué (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « office »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « office » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

office vs offre
67% similar
office vs offices
86% similar
office vs orifice
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for office
PropertyValue
Headwordoffice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.fis\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,047
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « office »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.officese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « marqué » (#2,046), « ordres » (#2,048), « lune » (#2,045). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « office » est au #2,047. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around office (IPA \ɔ.fis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,047 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Fonction, emploi dont on doit s’acquitter.
  2. 2
    Devoir que chacun est tenu de remplir dans la vie privée et sociale.
  3. 3
    Charge, emploi avec juridiction.
  4. 4
    Institution, organisme autonome qui est rattaché à un ministère.
  5. 5
    Assistance qu’on prête, service qu’on rend ; mauvais office : machination, cabale.
  6. 6
    Service de l’église, messe et prières publiques.
  7. 7
    Service de l’église, messe et prières publiques.
  8. 8
    Dans 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.
  9. 9
    Domestiques qui mangent à l’office dans une maison.
  10. 10
    Bureau.
  11. 11
    Contrat 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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how office appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les amortisseurs sociaux mis en place par l’exécutif remplissent leur office : salaires pris en charge dans le cadre du chômage partiel, report des cotisations sociales, fonds de solidarité pour les indépendants et les TPE…
  2. Mon estomac fait fort bien son office, ne fait plus son office.

This word in other languages

service(English)servicio(Español)Dienst(Deutsch)serviço(Português)

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.

fofice2offcie2officce1offiec2ofice1ofifce2
Edit distance from "office"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "office"?
"office" is spelled O-F-F-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.fis\.
What does "office" mean?
As a noun, "office" means: Fonction, emploi dont on doit s’acquitter.
What words are commonly confused with "office"?
"office" is commonly confused with "offre", "offices", "orifice". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "office"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "office" is \ɔ.fis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "office" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "office", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

marqué#2,046ordres#2,048profit#2,051blancs#2,027

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

seine6 variantsusine6 variantsaient6 variantsboire6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list