bufete
/buˈfete/ · B2 · noun · m
office
⚖️🏢 bufete sounds like boo-FET-eh: boo-fet, the lawyers' fee-net where clients get caught
Say it as boo-FET-eh. Link the sound to a firm where clients pay fees: boo (a groan at the bill) plus fet (like fee). Spanish bufete also means a lawyer's desk, which came to mean the whole office, from French buffet, a sideboard or table.