polak
\pɔ.lak\
The verdict
“polak” is uncommon French (frequency #68,554 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,554
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polonais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polak · polak · French
polak · rank #68,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,554
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planeurs
Nearest frequency peer: planeurs (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « polak »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piémontaise
piémontaise
31,450 corpus weight
- planeurs
planeurs
31,448 corpus weight
- polak
polak
31,447 corpus weight
- polyphénols
polyphénols
31,446 corpus weight
- Pompili
Pompili
31,445 corpus weight
- poncer
poncer
31,444 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polak » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.lak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polak » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polak is uncommon French at frequency #68,554 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.lak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Polonais.".
Zero misspellings are on record for polak in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is polak, spelled P-O-L-A-K.
Definition
- 1Polonais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how polak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis certain qu’à la réception de cette lettre vous allez vous dire : en voilà encore « un polak ».
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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