forces de l’ordre

/\fɔʁs də l‿ɔʁdʁ\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

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forces de l’ordre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des agents de l’autorité chargés de faire régner l’ordre public et de faire appliquer la loi. Pronounced \fɔʁs də l‿ɔʁdʁ\.

Key facts for forces de l’ordre
PropertyValue
Headwordforces de l’ordre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɔʁs də l‿ɔʁdʁ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

forces de l’ordre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for forces de l’ordre is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁs də l‿ɔʁdʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for forces de l’ordre 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 forces de l’ordre, spelled F-O-R-C-E-S- -D-E- -L-’-O-R-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble des agents de l’autorité chargés de faire régner l’ordre public et de faire appliquer la loi.
  2. 2
    (Usage critiqué) référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème) Désigne aussi les personnes faisant partie de l’ensemble des agents chargés du maintien de l’ordre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "forces de l’ordre"?
"forces de l’ordre" is spelled F-O-R-C-E-S- -D-E- -L-’-O-R-D-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɔʁs də l‿ɔʁdʁ\.
What does "forces de l’ordre" mean?
As a noun, "forces de l’ordre" means: Ensemble des agents de l’autorité chargés de faire régner l’ordre public et de faire appliquer la loi.
How do you pronounce "forces de l’ordre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "forces de l’ordre" is \fɔʁs də l‿ɔʁdʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.