offshore
\ɔf.ʃɔʁ\
The verdict
“offshore” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,776
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extracôtier, se trouvant en haute mer, au large des côtes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offshore · offshore · French
offshore · rank #17,776 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,776
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occupations
Nearest frequency peer: occupations (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « offshore »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nids
nids
82,229 corpus weight
- NS
NS
82,228 corpus weight
- occupations
occupations
82,226 corpus weight
- offshore
offshore
82,225 corpus weight
- ongle
ongle
82,223 corpus weight
- opium
opium
82,222 corpus weight
What this shows « offshore » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offshore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔf.ʃɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « offshore »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around offshore (IPA \ɔf.ʃɔʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,776 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for offshore, with forms such as "fofshore", "offhsore", and "offshhore". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is offshore, spelled O-F-F-S-H-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Extracôtier, se trouvant en haute mer, au large des côtes.
- 2Qualifie la pratique consistant à réaliser des activités, en particulier bancaires, dans certains pays où la législation offre des facilités.
- 3Qualifie une organisation permettant de réaliser un service depuis un autre pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how offshore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les plateformes pétrolières offshores se multiplient.
Dans l’ensemble, on estime que la Roumanie possède des réserves de gaz offshore d’environ 200 milliards de mètres cubes, ce qui devrait contribuer à diversifier l’approvisionnement de la région.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fofshore
- offhsore
- offshhore
- offshoer
- offshorre
- offshroe
- offsohre
- offsshore
- ofsfhore
- ofshore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of offshore - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).