office de tourisme

\ɔ.fis də tu.ʁism\

/\ɔ.fis də tu.ʁism\/ noun

The verdict

“office de tourisme” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
18
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Organisme dont le but est de promouvoir le tourisme dans une ville ou région.

Key facts for office de tourisme
PropertyValue
Headwordoffice de tourisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.fis də tu.ʁism\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “office de tourisme” sits in French frequency

office de tourisme falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for office de tourisme is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.fis də tu.ʁism\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for office de tourisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de tourisme, spelled O-F-F-I-C-E- -D-E- -T-O-U-R-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organisme dont le but est de promouvoir le tourisme dans une ville ou région.
  2. 2
    Bâtiment dans lequel il exerce son activité.

Synonyms

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "office de tourisme"?
"office de tourisme" is spelled O-F-F-I-C-E- -D-E- -T-O-U-R-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.fis də tu.ʁism\.
What does "office de tourisme" mean?
As a noun, "office de tourisme" means: Organisme dont le but est de promouvoir le tourisme dans une ville ou région.
How do you pronounce "office de tourisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "office de tourisme" is \ɔ.fis də tu.ʁism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “office de tourisme”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is O-F-F-I-C-E- -D-E- -T-O-U-R-I-S-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ɔ.fis də tu.ʁism\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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