chien policier
\ʃjɛ̃ pɔ.li.sje\
The verdict
“chien policier” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chien utilisé par les forces de l’ordre pour la recherche d’explosifs, de stupéfiants, de personnes ; le sauvetage ou la défense.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chien policier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃjɛ̃ pɔ.li.sje\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chien policier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chien policier is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃjɛ̃ pɔ.li.sje\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Chien utilisé par les forces de l’ordre pour la recherche d’explosifs, de stupéfiants, de personnes ; le sauvetage ou la défense.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chien policier in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is chien policier, spelled C-H-I-E-N- -P-O-L-I-C-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chien utilisé par les forces de l’ordre pour la recherche d’explosifs, de stupéfiants, de personnes ; le sauvetage ou la défense.
This word in other languages
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Using “chien policier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-I-E-N- -P-O-L-I-C-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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