officier supérieur
\ɔ.fi.sje sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“officier supérieur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Officier situé entre les officiers subalternes et les officiers généraux. Dans l’armée de terre et l’armée de l’air françaises, les officiers supérieurs sont, dans l’ordre ascendant, les commandant...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | officier supérieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.fi.sje sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “officier supérieur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for officier supérieur is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.fi.sje sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for officier supérieur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 supérieur, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Officier situé entre les officiers subalternes et les officiers généraux. Dans l’armée de terre et l’armée de l’air françaises, les officiers supérieurs sont, dans l’ordre ascendant, les commandants, les lieutenants-colonels et les colonels ; dans la gendarmerie nationale française, les chefs d’escadron, les lieutenants-colonels et les colonels ; et dans la Marine nationale française, les capitaines de corvette, les capitaines de frégate et les capitaines de vaisseau.
- 2Officier des grades successifs de commandant, lieutenant-colonel et colonel dans certaines administrations.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “officier supérieur”
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- The one correct French spelling is O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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