Poligny
\po.li.ɲi\
The verdict
“Poligny” is uncommon French (frequency #61,792 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,792
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Alpes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poligny · Poligny · French
Poligny · rank #61,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,792
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleasure
Nearest frequency peer: pleasure (-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 « Poligny »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pitance
pitance
38,213 corpus weight
- PLAI
PLAI
38,211 corpus weight
- pleasure
pleasure
38,210 corpus weight
- Poligny
Poligny
38,209 corpus weight
- polyuréthane
polyuréthane
38,208 corpus weight
- poussons
poussons
38,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Poligny » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poligny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \po.li.ɲi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Poligny » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Poligny is uncommon French at frequency #61,792 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \po.li.ɲi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Poligny in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 French form is Poligny, spelled P-O-L-I-G-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Hautes-Alpes.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aube.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département du Jura.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
- 5Canton français, situé dans le département du Jura.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Poligny appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« En ces temps-là, la Bourgogne était heureuse »… et la Franche-Comté itou. Des coteaux d’Arbois, de Poligny et de Salins, descendait, chaque automne, avec les cuves pleines, le beau vin couleur peau d’oignon, jailli des grappes de poulsard, et les vignerons à rouge trogne bénissaient le Seigneur dont le bon soleil gorgeait de vie les pampres vigoureux et…
— Moi je vais vous laisser, parce que mon mari doit partir très tôt pour être à Poligny avant deux heures.
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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