patrol car
"patrol-car" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“patrol car” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The car in which law enforcement officers, such as police officers or park rangers, patrol an area.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patrol car |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “patrol car” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
patrol car is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The car in which law enforcement officers, such as police officers or park rangers, patrol an area.".
patrol car doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 English form is patrol car, spelled P-A-T-R-O-L- -C-A-R.
Definition
- 1The car in which law enforcement officers, such as police officers or park rangers, patrol an area.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “patrol car”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-A-T-R-O-L- -C-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.