police

[pəˈliːs]

/[pəˈliːs]/ noun

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The verdict

“police” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,560
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polizei

Corpus desk

Index DE-police · police · German

police · rank #12,560 · 8 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,560
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH platzieren

Nearest frequency peer: platzieren (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „police“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „police“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

police vs price
67% similar
police vs Polin
50% similar
police vs Polio
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for police
PropertyValue
Headwordpolice
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pəˈliːs]
Letters6
Frequency rank#12,560
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „police“

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).policeliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „platzieren“ (#12,559), „praktischer“ (#12,561), „Philadelphia“ (#12,558). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „police“ bei #12,560. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around police (IPA [pəˈliːs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,560 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Polizei".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for police, with forms such as "oplice", "ploice", and "poilce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "price", "Polin", "Polio", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is police, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Polizei

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how police appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Somebody stole (has stolen) my car, I must call the police immediately!

This word in other languages

police(Français)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oplice
  • ploice
  • poilce
  • polcie
  • policce
  • poliec
  • pollice
  • ppolice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of police - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

oplice2ploice2poilce2polcie2policce1poliec2pollice1ppolice1
Edit distance from "police"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "police"?
"police" is spelled P-O-L-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is [pəˈliːs].
What does "police" mean?
As a noun, "police" means: Polizei
What words are commonly confused with "police"?
"police" is commonly confused with "price", "Polin", "Polio". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "police"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "police" is [pəˈliːs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "police" come from?
"police" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "police", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rechne#12,570nassen#12,546Riegel#12,575Mönche#12,544

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Rebecca8 variantsLounge8 variantslockt8 variantsstoppt8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list