Which to use
“offices” and “offres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,525
- “offices” frequency rank
- #2,939
- “offres” frequency rank
- 17464
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | offices | offres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de office. | Pluriel de offre. |
Where the eye mixes offices and offres
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: offices vs offres
A purely visual mix-up. offices (\ɔ.fis\) and offres (\ɔfʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17464, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
offices is recorded at frequency rank #14,525, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɔ.fis\. offres is at rank #2,939, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɔfʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 17464, this pair ranks #383,045 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of offices vs offres
Shared letters: efos. Private to "offices": ci. Private to "offres": r.
"offices" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "offres" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "offices" and "offres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "offices" or "offres"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "offices" and "offres" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "offices" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "offres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #383,045 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "offices" and "offres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "officer vs offices". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #383,045 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.