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 May 6, 2026) - An automobile used by a police officer when on duty. Usually marked with police livery; sometimes an unmarked car.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | police car |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “police car” sits in English frequency
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.
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 “police car”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-O-L-I-C-E- -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.