policía

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for policía is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poliˈsia]. Corpus data places it at rank #436 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fuerza de seguridad encargada de imponer el orden en el interior de un Estado, de la investigación de los delitos y la persecución y captura de los imputados de los mismos.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for policía, with forms such as "oplicía", "ploicía", and "poilcía". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "póliza", "policy", "Polonia", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is policía, spelled P-O-L-I-C-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.