police nationale
\pɔ.lis na.sjɔ.nal\
The verdict
“police nationale” 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) — Force de police ayant autorité dans toute une nation.
| 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) |
Where “police nationale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for police nationale is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.lis na.sjɔ.nal\. 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 toute une nation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for police nationale 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 nationale, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -N-A-T-I-O-N-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 toute une nation.
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.
Cite this page
Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY-SA). Copy the citation:
PlainSpell, “police nationale, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/police-nationale
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "police nationale"?
What does "police nationale" mean?
How do you pronounce "police nationale"?
What language does "police nationale" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “police nationale”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-L-I-C-E- -N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔ.lis na.sjɔ.nal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: