commissariat de police
\kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja.də.pɔ.lis\
The verdict
“commissariat de police” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lieu où siège le commissaire de police.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commissariat de police |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja.də.pɔ.lis\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “commissariat de police” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commissariat de police is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja.də.pɔ.lis\. 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: "Lieu où siège le commissaire de police.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for commissariat de police, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is commissariat de police, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-R-I-A-T- -D-E- -P-O-L-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où siège le commissaire de police.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-R-I-A-T- -D-E- -P-O-L-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.