officiait
\o.fi.sjɛ\
The verdict
“officiait” is uncommon French (frequency #63,210 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,210
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de officier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-officiait · officiait · French
officiait · rank #63,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,210
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offer
Nearest frequency peer: offer (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « officiait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- octopus
octopus
36,794 corpus weight
- odorant
odorant
36,793 corpus weight
- offer
offer
36,792 corpus weight
- officiait
officiait
36,791 corpus weight
- Ogilvy
Ogilvy
36,790 corpus weight
- oksana
oksana
36,789 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « officiait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | officiait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.fi.sjɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « officiait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
officiait is uncommon French at frequency #63,210 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \o.fi.sjɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de officier.".
officiait has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 officiait, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de officier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how officiait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien sûr, Manolete officiait en personne.
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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