policée
\pɔ.li.se\
The verdict
“policée” is uncommon French (frequency #95,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,172
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de policé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-policee · policée · French
policée · rank #95,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,172
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poivrez
Nearest frequency peer: poivrez (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « policée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poivrez
poivrez
4,830 corpus weight
- policée
policée
4,829 corpus weight
- ponctionne
ponctionne
4,827 corpus weight
- Pontorson
Pontorson
4,826 corpus weight
- Portishead
Portishead
4,825 corpus weight
- portus
portus
4,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « policée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | policée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « policée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
policée is uncommon French at frequency #95,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.li.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de policé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for policée, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 policée, spelled P-O-L-I-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de policé.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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