police car
"police-car" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“police 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 September 3, 2026) - An automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes an unmarked car.
Corpus desk
Index EN-police-car · police car · English
police car · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | police car |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “police car” in English
Rare enough to double-check
police car is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes an unmarked car.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for police car in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is police car, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -C-A-R.
Definition
- 1An automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes an unmarked car.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how police car appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: patrol car, cruise car, cruiser, squad car, radio car, crime car
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.