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polybag

noun, verb

polybag is spelled P-O-L-Y-B-A-G: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, polybag means “A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of polybag is polybags.

How many letters and syllables are in polybag?

Letters7: P-O-L-Y-B-A-G
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is polybag?

Polybag appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of polybag

  • polybags plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • polybagging participle, present
  • polybagged participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does polybag mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of a newspaper or magazine.

verb

  1. 1

    To package in a plastic bag.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does polybag come from?

From poly- + bag.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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