policiers
\pɔ.li.sje\
The verdict
“policiers” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,965. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,965
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de policier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-policiers · policiers · French
policiers · rank #1,965 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,965
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plage
Nearest frequency peer: plage (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « policiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nice
nice
98,039 corpus weight
- piste
piste
98,038 corpus weight
- plage
plage
98,037 corpus weight
- policiers
policiers
98,036 corpus weight
- Post
Post
98,035 corpus weight
- pouvoirs
pouvoirs
98,034 corpus weight
What this shows « policiers » 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 | policiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.sje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « policiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around policiers (IPA \pɔ.li.sje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,965 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de policier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for policiers, with forms such as "opliciers", "ploiciers", and "poilciers". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "policier", "Poitiers", "policière", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is policiers, spelled P-O-L-I-C-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de policier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how policiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un roman policier
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opliciers
- ploiciers
- poilciers
- polciiers
- policciers
- policeirs
- policierrs
- policierss
- policiesr
- policires
- poliicers
- polliciers
- ppoliciers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of policiers - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).