policer
\pɔ.li.se\
The verdict
“policer” is uncommon French (frequency #89,009 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,009
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Civiliser, adoucir les mœurs, établir dans un pays des lois, des règlements pour la sûreté, la tranquillité, la commodité des habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-policer · policer · French
policer · rank #89,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,009
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plénipotentia…
Nearest frequency peer: plénipotentiaires (-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 « policer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plumet
plumet
10,995 corpus weight
- pluralistes
pluralistes
10,994 corpus weight
- plénipotent…
plénipotentiaires
10,993 corpus weight
- policer
policer
10,992 corpus weight
- polyèdres
polyèdres
10,991 corpus weight
- Popincourt
Popincourt
10,989 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « policer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | policer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « policer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
policer is uncommon French at frequency #89,009 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔ.li.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Civiliser, adoucir les mœurs, établir dans un pays des lois, des règlements pour la sûreté, la tranquillité, la commodité des habitants.".
Zero misspellings are on record for policer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is policer, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Civiliser, adoucir les mœurs, établir dans un pays des lois, des règlements pour la sûreté, la tranquillité, la commodité des habitants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how policer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Policer une ville, un état, des peuples.
Il est le premier qui ait policé les nations du Nord.
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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