police nationale
\pɔ.lis na.sjɔ.nal\
The verdict
“police nationale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Force de police ayant autorité dans toute une nation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-police-nationale · police nationale · French
police nationale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | police nationale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.lis na.sjɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
police nationale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.lis na.sjɔ.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Force de police ayant autorité dans toute une nation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for police nationale in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 police nationale, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Force de police ayant autorité dans toute une nation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how police nationale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne répugne pas non plus accueillir les policiers qui, la nuit, patrouillent dans le quartier, et à leur signaler tel individu louche qu'il a vu zoner dans le coin. Ce type de services rendus à la police nationale sont naturellement gratuits, mais à charge de revanche.
Marcas s'arrêta devant un présentoir rempli d'accessoires SM et prit une paire de menottes, finement cloutées à l'intérieur. Il secoua la tête en souriant. — Ce n'est pas le modèle homologué par la police nationale, chère madame. La domina croisait les bras avec un air de défi. — Et alors ? Je suis pas flic ! […].
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.