officier de police
\o.fi.sje də po.lis\
The verdict
“officier de police” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonctionnaire de la police chargé de missions d’investigation ou de renseignement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-officier-de-police · officier de police · French
officier de police · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | officier de police |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.fi.sje də po.lis\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « officier de police » en français
Rare enough to double-check
officier de police is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.fi.sje də po.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fonctionnaire de la police chargé de missions d’investigation ou de renseignement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for officier de police, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is officier de police, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R- -D-E- -P-O-L-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Fonctionnaire de la police chargé de missions d’investigation ou de renseignement.
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.