officiant
\ɔ.fi.sjɑ̃\
The verdict
“officiant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,003 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,003
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui officie à l’église.
Corpus desk
Index FR-officiant · officiant · French
officiant · rank #51,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,003
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH odes
Nearest frequency peer: odes (-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 « officiant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Numerus
Numerus
49,002 corpus weight
- numérotée
numérotée
49,001 corpus weight
- néonazi
néonazi
49,000 corpus weight
- odes
odes
48,999 corpus weight
- officiant
officiant
48,998 corpus weight
- olympiade
olympiade
48,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « officiant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | officiant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.fi.sjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « officiant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
officiant is uncommon French at frequency #51,003 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.fi.sjɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
officiant has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is officiant, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui officie à l’église.
- 2Qui accomplit son office.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how officiant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le prêtre officiant.
Ce matin, Irma Guépin et Léonie Gras tournaient une corde, Julia Kasen sautait : brune, mince, tablier noir serré, chaussettes noires, les bras collés au corps, elle dansait sans autre mouvement que le rebondissement rythmé d’un objet élastique. Cette impassibilité officiante n’appartient qu’à Julia ; il semble que des effluves divinisent son visage fixe.
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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