federale
[fɛdəˈɹɑːli]noun
federale is a noun meaning “A federal law enforcement officer, usually belonging to the United States government” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-D-E-R-A-L-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of federale is federales.
What does federale mean?
noun
- 1
informalA federal law enforcement officer, usually belonging to the United States government.
- 2
USinformalslangAlternative letter-case form of Federale: A member of the Mexican Federal Police.
noun
- 1
USinformalslangA member of the Mexican Federal Police.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce federale?
- [fɛdəˈɹɑːli]
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of federale
- federales plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is federale?
Federale appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does federale come from?
Back-formation from the plural, from Mexican Spanish federales, from federal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).