oficial
\o.fiˈθjal\
The verdict
“oficial” is uncommon French (frequency #97,229 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,229
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oficial · oficial · French
oficial · rank #97,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,229
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offensent
Nearest frequency peer: offensent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « oficial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obsèdent
obsèdent
2,776 corpus weight
- offensent
offensent
2,773 corpus weight
- oficial
oficial
2,772 corpus weight
- Oldenburg
Oldenburg
2,771 corpus weight
- oliphant
oliphant
2,770 corpus weight
- ombelles
ombelles
2,769 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oficial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oficial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.fiˈθjal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oficial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oficial is uncommon French at frequency #97,229 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.fiˈθjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Officiel.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for oficial in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is oficial, spelled O-F-I-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Officiel.
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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