sergent de ville
\sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃ də vil\
The verdict
“sergent de ville” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Agent de police armé, chargé de maintenir l’ordre dans les lieux publics.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sergent de ville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃ də vil\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sergent de ville” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sergent de ville is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃ də vil\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Agent de police armé, chargé de maintenir l’ordre dans les lieux publics.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sergent de ville, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 sergent de ville, spelled S-E-R-G-E-N-T- -D-E- -V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Agent de police armé, chargé de maintenir l’ordre dans les lieux publics.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sergent de ville”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-R-G-E-N-T- -D-E- -V-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃ də vil\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.