officier

/\ɔ.fi.sje\/ noun

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.

Key facts for officier
PropertyValue
Headwordofficier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.fi.sje\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,688
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of officier in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Celui qui a un office, qui remplit une charge, qui occupe un emploi civil.
  2. 2
    Serviteur de grande maison ayant soin de la table et de l’office.
  3. 3
    Celui qui, revêtu de tel ou tel grade, exerce le commandement afférent à ce grade, dans l’armée.
  4. 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.
  5. 5
    Dignitaire 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"

foficier8offciier8officcier9officeir8officierr9officire8offiicer8oficier7
Misspelling Variants of "officier"

Frequency rank: #2,688 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "officier"?
"officier" is spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.fi.sje\.
What does "officier" mean?
As a noun, "officier" means: Celui qui a un office, qui remplit une charge, qui occupe un emploi civil.
What words are commonly confused with "officier"?
"officier" is commonly confused with "officine", "officiers", "officieux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "officier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "officier" is \ɔ.fi.sje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "officier" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.