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offical

offical is the misspelling of official.

Meaning of official

Adjective

official (comparative more official, superlative most official)

  1. Of or about an office or public trust.
    • official duties
  2. Derived from the proper office or officer, or the appropriate authority; made or communicated by authority
    • an official statement or report
  3. Approved by authority; authorized.
    • The Official Strategy Guide
    1. (Of a statement) Dubious but recognized by authorities as the truth or canon.
      • Despite these testimonies, "accidental asphyxiation" remains his official cause of death.
  4. Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
    • an official drug or preparation
  5. Discharging an office or function.
    • the stomach and other parts official unto nutrition1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

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Questions about offical

What is offical the misspelling of?
Offical is the misspelling of official.

Words near offical in the dictionary

  1. offheld
  2. offhold
  3. offholding
  4. offholds
  5. officah
  6. offical
  7. offically
  8. office
  9. Office action
  10. office automation
  11. office automations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: offical (page history and authors); official (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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