policy
\ˈpɑ.lə.si\
The verdict
“policy” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,376. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,376
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Politique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-policy · policy · French
policy · rank #22,376 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,376
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polarisation
Nearest frequency peer: polarisation (-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 « policy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- placez
placez
77,628 corpus weight
- plaquettes
plaquettes
77,627 corpus weight
- polarisation
polarisation
77,626 corpus weight
- policy
policy
77,625 corpus weight
- pourcentages
pourcentages
77,624 corpus weight
- profane
profane
77,623 corpus weight
What this shows « policy » 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 | policy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɑ.lə.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « policy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around policy (IPA \ˈpɑ.lə.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,376 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for policy, with forms such as "oplicy", "ploicy", and "poilcy". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "polie", "polis", "Polly", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is policy, spelled P-O-L-I-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Politique.
- 2Règle, principe d’action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how policy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The policy package known as Abenomics appears to have influenced the Japanese economy drastically, in particular, in the financial markets.
French politician Claude Malhuret criticized the United States’ changing policy toward Ukraine and took aim at President Donald Trump during a general session of the French Senate on Tuesday.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplicy
- ploicy
- poilcy
- polciy
- policcy
- policyy
- poliyc
- pollicy
- ppolicy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of policy - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).