officer

\ˈɑf.ə.sɚ\

/\ˈɑf.ə.sɚ\/ noun

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The verdict

“officer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,453
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-officer · officer · French

officer · rank #37,453 · 8 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,453
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH océaniques

Nearest frequency peer: océaniques (-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 « officer »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « officer » 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).

officer vs offices
86% similar
officer vs officie
71% similar
officer vs officiel
75% similar

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

Key facts for officer
PropertyValue
Headwordofficer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈɑf.ə.sɚ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#37,453
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « officer »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).officerse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « océaniques » (#37,452), « officialiser » (#37,454), « névrose » (#37,451). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « officer » est au #37,453. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around officer (IPA \ˈɑf.ə.sɚ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,453 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for officer, with forms such as "foficer", "offcier", and "officcer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "offices", "officie", "officiel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is officer, spelled O-F-F-I-C-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Officier.
  2. 2
    Fonctionnaire.
  3. 3
    Agent.
  4. 4
    Personne faisant partie de et travaillant pour un service de renseignement.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • foficer
  • offcier
  • officcer
  • officerr
  • officre
  • offiecr
  • oficer
  • ofifcer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of officer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

foficer2offcier2officcer1officerr1officre2offiecr2oficer1ofifcer2
Edit distance from "officer"

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 "officer"?
"officer" is spelled O-F-F-I-C-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈɑf.ə.sɚ\.
What does "officer" mean?
As a noun, "officer" means: Officier.
What words are commonly confused with "officer"?
"officer" is commonly confused with "offices", "officie", "officiel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "officer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "officer" is \ˈɑf.ə.sɚ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "officer" come from?
"officer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

névrose#37,451onction#37,455nymphes#37,450onglets#37,456

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

osmose8 variantsMounir8 variantspaumée8 variantsPigalle8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list