officesvsoffresConfusable pair

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.

7 ch
offices
6 ch
offres

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

  • officesfofices · offcies · officces · officess · officse · offiecs · ofices · ofifces
  • offresfofres · offers · offress · offrres · offrse · ofres · ofrfes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "offices" and "offres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ɔ.fis\ versus \ɔfʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "offices" or "offres"?
"offres" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,939 in our French list, against #14,525 for "offices". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list