roman policier
Letters
14 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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roman policier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Roman à énigme concernant un crime ou un délit, dont le héros est parfois un journaliste, un détective, un policier, etc. Pronounced \ʁɔ.mɑ̃ pɔ.li.sje\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roman policier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.mɑ̃ pɔ.li.sje\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for roman policier is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.mɑ̃ pɔ.li.sje\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for roman policier in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is roman policier, spelled R-O-M-A-N- -P-O-L-I-C-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roman à énigme concernant un crime ou un délit, dont le héros est parfois un journaliste, un détective, un policier, etc.
- 2Genre littéraire associé à ce type de roman.
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