police
\pɔ.lis\
The verdict
“police” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #469. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #469
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordre, règlement établi dans un État, dans une ville, pour tout ce qui regarde la sûreté, la tranquillité et la commodité des citoyens, des habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-police · police · French
police · rank #469 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #469
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plein
Nearest frequency peer: plein (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « police »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mai
mai
99,535 corpus weight
- peur
peur
99,534 corpus weight
- plein
plein
99,533 corpus weight
- police
police
99,532 corpus weight
- septembre
septembre
99,531 corpus weight
- sécurité
sécurité
99,530 corpus weight
What this shows « police » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | police |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.lis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « police »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around police (IPA \pɔ.lis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #469 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for police, with forms such as "oplice", "ploice", and "poilce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pouce", "price", "polie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is police, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ordre, règlement établi dans un État, dans une ville, pour tout ce qui regarde la sûreté, la tranquillité et la commodité des citoyens, des habitants.
- 2Administration qui exerce cette police.
- 3Ordre ou règlement établi dans quelque assemblée, dans quelque société que ce soit.
- 4Agent de police, policier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how police appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les mellahs, le moqadem des quartiers de la vie musulmane était remplacé par le cheikh el yhoud qui en assurait la police sous l'autorité du gouverneur de la ville.
Règlement, ordonnance de police.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplice
- ploice
- poilce
- polcie
- policce
- poliec
- pollice
- ppolice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of police - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).