policies
\ˈpɑl.ə.siz\
The verdict
“policies” is uncommon French (frequency #71,803 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,803
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de policy.
Corpus desk
Index FR-policies · policies · French
policies · rank #71,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,803
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polarisés
Nearest frequency peer: polarisés (-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 « policies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- podologue
podologue
28,202 corpus weight
- polarisés
polarisés
28,199 corpus weight
- policies
policies
28,198 corpus weight
- politica
politica
28,197 corpus weight
- popolo
popolo
28,196 corpus weight
- Popp
Popp
28,195 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « policies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | policies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɑl.ə.siz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « policies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
policies is uncommon French at frequency #71,803 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɑl.ə.siz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de policy.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for policies in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is policies, spelled P-O-L-I-C-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de policy.
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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