poliment
\pɔ.li.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“poliment” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,726
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière polie , en parlant de la manière d’agir, d’écrire, de s’exprimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poliment · poliment · French
poliment · rank #21,726 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,726
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PLS
Nearest frequency peer: PLS (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « poliment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- persécutés
persécutés
78,278 corpus weight
- PLS
PLS
78,276 corpus weight
- poliment
poliment
78,275 corpus weight
- pons
pons
78,274 corpus weight
- pornographi…
pornographique
78,273 corpus weight
- posera
posera
78,272 corpus weight
What this shows « poliment » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poliment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poliment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around poliment (IPA \pɔ.li.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #21,726 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière polie , en parlant de la manière d’agir, d’écrire, de s’exprimer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for poliment, with forms such as "opliment", "ploiment", and "poilment". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "polluent", "piment", "plient", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is poliment, spelled P-O-L-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière polie , en parlant de la manière d’agir, d’écrire, de s’exprimer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poliment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous eûmes dans la matinée une audience publique du vice-roi. […]. Il nous reçut poliment , accorda au capitaine la relâche , et aux passagers la permission de se promener en ville.
Il avait des manières courtoises et prévenantes, saluant poliment tout le monde, mais particulièrement les dames et les demoiselles, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opliment
- ploiment
- poilment
- poliemnt
- polimennt
- polimentt
- polimetn
- polimment
- polimnet
- polliment
- polmient
- ppoliment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poliment - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).