sergent de ville
\sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃ də vil\
The verdict
“sergent de ville” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agent de police armé, chargé de maintenir l’ordre dans les lieux publics.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sergent-de-ville · sergent de ville · French
sergent de ville · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sergent de ville is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃ də vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sergent de ville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sergent de ville lisait lentement, personne ne soufflait mot ; la vieille, qui ne comprenait pas le français, écoutait comme les autres. On aurait entendu voler une mouche.
Quelques sergents de ville se promenaient lentement devant les portes.
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.