polder
\pɔl.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“polder” is uncommon French (frequency #96,255 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,255
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaine conquise sur la mer et protégée par des digues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polder · polder · French
polder · rank #96,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,255
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poissant
Nearest frequency peer: poissant (-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 « polder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pluridiscip…
pluridisciplinarité
3,749 corpus weight
- pneumonies
pneumonies
3,748 corpus weight
- poissant
poissant
3,747 corpus weight
- polder
polder
3,746 corpus weight
- polygonal
polygonal
3,745 corpus weight
- Pombal
Pombal
3,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔl.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polder is uncommon French at frequency #96,255 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔl.dɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plaine conquise sur la mer et protégée par des digues.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for polder, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is polder, spelled P-O-L-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Plaine conquise sur la mer et protégée par des digues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le rendement des polders est, en général, relativement assez faible et irrégulier dans les deux ou trois premières années de l’exploitation, surtout si ces années sont accompagnées de sécheresse et de chaleur. Le sel se trouve en excès dans le sol, et il faut que la terre soit délavée et dessalée par les pluies, égouttée par un système suffisant de rigole…
Elle produit du rocou, du coton et du cacao, mais en quantités trop faibles, car les Français n’ont pas procédé aux aménagements de polders qui font la prospérité de leurs voisins hollandais du Surinam.
This word in other languages
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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