Officialese

Definition: Officialese

Officialese

Noun

1. The style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure.

"Officialese" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Officialese" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Language		Translations for "officialese"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zyrtar (administrative, ceremonial, ceremonious, donnish, formal, functionary, magistrate, official, officinal, regular), stil zyrtar. (various references)

Bulgarian		канцеларски език, високопарен език (heroics), неясен език, многоречив език. (various references)

Czech		úřední sloh. (various references)

German		beamtensprache, beamtenchinesisch, amtssprache. (various references)

Greek		υπηρεσιακή φρασεολογία. (various references)

Hungarian		hivatalos nyelv. (various references)

Italian		gergo burocratico. (various references)

Manx		oikoilish. (various references)

Pig Latin		officialeseay

Romanian		stil oficial, stil al actelor oficiale, jargon funcţionãresc. (various references)

Russian		чиновничий, канцелярский стиль. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		birokratski žargon. (various references)

Spanish		lenguaje burocrático, estilo oficial burocrático. (various references)

Swedish		kanslistil, kanslispråk. (various references)

Ukranian		стиль офіційних документів, канцелярський стиль, канцелярщина, бюрократичний жаргон. (various references)

Vietnamese		văn công văn giấy tờ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "officialese": officialeses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-f-i-i-l-o-s"
	-2 letters: coalifies, officials.
	-3 letters: focalise, official.
	-4 letters: celosia, coffees, coffles, coiffes, effaces, fecials, laicise, offices.
	-5 letters: aiolis, califs, cliffs, coffee, coffle, coiffe, colies, efface, facies, facile, faeces, falces, falsie, fecial, fiasco, ficoes, filose, fiscal, liaise, offals, office, sclaff, sialic, silica, social, solace.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-f-f-i-i-l-o-s"
	+1 letter: officialeses.
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