police des mœurs
\pɔ.lis de mœʁs\
The verdict
“police des mœurs” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unité de police qui était chargée de la répression des atteintes aux bonnes mœurs et de la régulation de la prostitution et du proxénétisme, et nommée aujourd’hui Brigade de répression du proxénéti...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | police des mœurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.lis de mœʁs\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “police des mœurs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for police des mœurs is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.lis de mœʁs\. 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: "Unité de police qui était chargée de la répression des atteintes aux bonnes mœurs et de la régulation de la prostitution et du proxénétisme, et nommée aujourd’hui Brigade de répression du proxénéti...".
No misspelling variants are generated for police des mœurs 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 police des mœurs, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -D-E-S- -M-Œ-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unité de police qui était chargée de la répression des atteintes aux bonnes mœurs et de la régulation de la prostitution et du proxénétisme, et nommée aujourd’hui Brigade de répression du proxénétisme.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-L-I-C-E- -D-E-S- -M-Œ-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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