poli
[pɔ.li]
The verdict
“poli” is uncommon German (frequency #54,800 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,800
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - artig, galant, höflich
Corpus desk
Index DE-poli · poli · German
poli · rank #54,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,800
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH plätschert
Nearest frequency peer: plätschert (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „poli“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pietismus
Pietismus
45,204 corpus weight
- pla
pla
45,203 corpus weight
- plätschert
plätschert
45,202 corpus weight
- poli
poli
45,201 corpus weight
- populärste
populärste
45,200 corpus weight
- Postleitzah…
Postleitzahlen
45,199 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „poli“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poli |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɔ.li] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „poli“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
poli is uncommon German at frequency #54,800 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pɔ.li]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poli, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is poli, spelled P-O-L-I.
Definition
- 1artig, galant, höflich
- 2poliert
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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