officier
\ɔ.fi.sje\
The verdict
“officier” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,688 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,688
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui a un office, qui remplit une charge, qui occupe un emploi civil.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “officier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for officier is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for officier, with forms such as "foficier", "offciier", and "officcier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is officier, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R.
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.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: foficier,offciier,officcier,officeir,officierr,officire,offiicer,oficier,ofifcier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of officier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “officier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔ.fi.sje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “officine” - see the side-by-side comparison. officier vs officine
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.