policier
\pɔ.li.sje\
The verdict
“policier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,377
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonctionnaire employé dans la police.
Corpus desk
Index FR-policier · policier · French
policier · rank #2,377 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,377
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Patrick
Nearest frequency peer: Patrick (-2 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « policier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- option
option
97,628 corpus weight
- orient
orient
97,627 corpus weight
- Patrick
Patrick
97,626 corpus weight
- policier
policier
97,624 corpus weight
- promotion
promotion
97,622 corpus weight
- présents
présents
97,620 corpus weight
What this shows « policier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | policier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.sje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « policier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around policier (IPA \pɔ.li.sje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,377 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for policier, with forms such as "oplicier", "ploicier", and "poilcier". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "policiers", "policière", "policières", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is policier, spelled P-O-L-I-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fonctionnaire employé dans la police.
- 2Roman policier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how policier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi rien n’est-il plus naturel que de voir des policiers […] prendre, pour ne pas effaroucher leur proie, l’apparence des gars qu’ils ont la mission d’appréhender.
Les policiers angoumoisins sont appelés par un riverain du centre-ville d’Angoulême qui signale que deux individus s’amusent à dégrader les rétroviseurs de voitures.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplicier
- ploicier
- poilcier
- polciier
- policcier
- policeir
- policierr
- policire
- poliicer
- pollicier
- ppolicier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of policier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "policier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).