police fédérale
The verdict
“police fédérale” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Force de police ayant autorité dans plusieurs états fédérés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | police fédérale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po.lis fe.de.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “police fédérale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for police fédérale is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po.lis fe.de.ʁal\. 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: "Force de police ayant autorité dans plusieurs états fédérés.".
No misspelling variants are generated for police fédérale 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 fédérale, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -F-É-D-É-R-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Force de police ayant autorité dans plusieurs états fédérés.
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Using “police fédérale”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-L-I-C-E- -F-É-D-É-R-A-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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