Saint-Office
\sɛ̃.t‿ɔ.fis\
The verdict
“Saint-Office” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tribunal de l’Inquisition de l’Église catholique romaine, établi au XVIᵉ siècle pour juger souverainement les cas d’hérésie et qui, par la suite, se voit attribuer le rôle de la congrégation de l’i...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Saint-Office |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.t‿ɔ.fis\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Saint-Office” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Saint-Office is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \sɛ̃.t‿ɔ.fis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Saint-Office, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Saint-Office, spelled S-A-I-N-T---O-F-F-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Tribunal de l’Inquisition de l’Église catholique romaine, établi au XVIᵉ siècle pour juger souverainement les cas d’hérésie et qui, par la suite, se voit attribuer le rôle de la congrégation de l’index.
- 2Ancienne appellation de la Congrégation pour la doctrine de la foi, l’une des neufs qui compose la curie romaine qui a pour rôle de veiller à la pureté de la doctrine catholique.
This word in other languages
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 “Saint-Office”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-I-N-T---O-F-F-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛ̃.t‿ɔ.fis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.