officier de police

\o.fi.sje də po.lis\

/\o.fi.sje də po.lis\/ noun

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.

Key facts for officier de police
PropertyValue
Headwordofficier de police
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.fi.sje də po.lis\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « officier de police » en français

officier de policen'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Fonctionnaire 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "officier de police"?
"officier de police" is spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-E-R- -D-E- -P-O-L-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.fi.sje də po.lis\.
What does "officier de police" mean?
As a noun, "officier de police" means: Fonctionnaire de la police chargé de missions d’investigation ou de renseignement.
How do you pronounce "officier de police"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "officier de police" is \o.fi.sje də po.lis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "officier de police" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list