officier
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,688
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
officier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui a un office, qui remplit une charge, qui occupe un emploi civil. Pronounced \ɔ.fi.sje\. It ranks #2,688 in French word frequency. Often confused with officine and officiers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | officier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.fi.sje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for officier is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.fi.sje\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,688 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for officier, with forms such as "foficier", "offciier", and "officcier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "officine", "officiers", "officieux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 officier, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a un office, qui remplit une charge, qui occupe un emploi civil.
- 2Serviteur de grande maison ayant soin de la table et de l’office.
- 3Celui qui, revêtu de tel ou tel grade, exerce le commandement afférent à ce grade, dans l’armée.
- 4Celui qui a reçu une commission, ou parchemin, d’officier accordé par le souverain pour exercer des fonctions de commandement au sein d’une armée.
- 5Dignitaire d’un degré déterminé de certains ordres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: foficier,offciier,officcier,officeir,officierr,officire,offiicer,oficier,ofifcier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for officier
Misspelling Variants of "officier"
Frequency rank: #2,688 in French
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