polisson
\pɔ.li.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“polisson” is uncommon French (frequency #85,142 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,142
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne malhonnête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polisson · polisson · French
polisson · rank #85,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,142
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Poitevine
Nearest frequency peer: Poitevine (-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 « polisson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plumeau
plumeau
14,863 corpus weight
- plurilingui…
plurilinguisme
14,862 corpus weight
- Poitevine
Poitevine
14,860 corpus weight
- polisson
polisson
14,859 corpus weight
- polski
polski
14,858 corpus weight
- polype
polype
14,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polisson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polisson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polisson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polisson is uncommon French at frequency #85,142 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for polisson, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is polisson, spelled P-O-L-I-S-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Personne malhonnête.
- 2Enfant mal élevé.
- 3Personne grivoise.
- 4Pièce de grosse toile que les femmes ajoutaient à leur ceinture pour augmenter l’ampleur des reins
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polisson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fandor s’est conduit comme un polisson et m’a fait soupçonner d’indiscrétion notoire.
Douze mille francs de dettes ? Tu diras de ma part à ton client que c’est un polisson…
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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