officialité

\ɔ.fi.sja.li.te\

/\ɔ.fi.sja.li.te\/ noun

The verdict

“officialité” is uncommon French (frequency #86,977 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,977
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juridiction de l’official.

Corpus desk

Index FR-officialite · officialité · French

officialité · rank #86,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,977
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH OCR

Nearest frequency peer: OCR (-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 « officialité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « officialité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for officialité
PropertyValue
Headwordofficialité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.fi.sja.li.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#86,977
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « officialité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.officialitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « OCR » (#86,976), « Oceania » (#86,975), « oir » (#86,979). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « officialité » est au #86,977. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

officialité is uncommon French at frequency #86,977 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.fi.sja.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for officialité, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is officialité, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Juridiction de l’official.
  2. 2
    Lieu où l’official rend la justice.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. En s’imposant brutalement dans les officialités, le congrès réveille et déchaîne les passions les plus grossières. Dès le XVIᵉ siècle et grâce à lui, les procès en impuissance occupent le devant de la scène. Générateur de paradoxes, il marque l’âge d’or de la répression.
  2. Aller à l’officialité. Être mandé à l’officialité.

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 "officialité"?
"officialité" is spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.fi.sja.li.te\.
What does "officialité" mean?
As a noun, "officialité" means: Juridiction de l’official.
How do you pronounce "officialité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "officialité" is \ɔ.fi.sja.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "officialité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list