officier
French, noun/ɔ.fi.sje/
officier is spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written French, the 2,670th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Officier is a French masculine noun meaning “officer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui a un office, qui remplit une charge, qui occupe un emploi civil”.
What does officier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to officiate
noun
- 1
masculineofficer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui a un office, qui remplit une charge, qui occupe un emploi civil. 2. Serviteur de grande maison ayant soin de la table et de l’office. 3. Celui qui, revêtu de tel ou tel grade, exerce le commandement afférent à ce grade, dans l’armée. 4. Celui qui a reçu une commission, ou parchemin, d’officier accordé par le souverain pour exercer des fonctions de commandement au sein d’une armée.
verb: 1. Célébrer l’office divin à l’église. 2. Pratiquer une activité professionnelle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of officier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- officiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- officié participle past
- officie first-person indicative present
- officies indicative present second-person
- officions first-person indicative plural
- officiez indicative plural present
- officient indicative plural present
- officiais first-person imperfect indicative
- officiait imperfect indicative singular
- officiions first-person imperfect indicative
- officiiez imperfect indicative plural
- officiaient imperfect indicative plural
- officiai first-person historic indicative
- officias historic indicative past
- officia historic indicative past
- officiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce officier?
- /ɔ.fi.sje/
- /ɔ.fi.sje.ʁ‿/
- \ɔ.fi.sje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to officier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is officier in French?
officier appears 30 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).