police officer
\pə.ˈlis ˌɑf.ə.sɚ\
The verdict
“police officer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Policier, policière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-police-officer · police officer · French
police officer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 officer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.ˈlis ˌɑf.ə.sɚ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
police officer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pə.ˈlis ˌɑf.ə.sɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Policier, policière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for police officer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is police officer, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -O-F-F-I-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Policier, policière.
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.