politologue

\pɔ.li.tɔ.lɔɡ\

/\pɔ.li.tɔ.lɔɡ\/ noun

The verdict

“politologue” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,188
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
15
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialiste de la science politique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-politologue · politologue · French

politologue · rank #27,188 · 15 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,188
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plébiscite

Nearest frequency peer: plébiscite (-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 « politologue »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « politologue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for politologue
PropertyValue
Headwordpolitologue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔ.li.tɔ.lɔɡ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#27,188
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « politologue »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.politologuese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plébiscite » (#27,187), « ponctuelles » (#27,189), « Pluton » (#27,186). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « politologue » est au #27,188. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around politologue (IPA \pɔ.li.tɔ.lɔɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,188 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Spécialiste de la science politique.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for politologue, with forms such as "oplitologue", "ploitologue", and "poiltologue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 politologue, spelled P-O-L-I-T-O-L-O-G-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Spécialiste de la science politique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how politologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. vu les formats proposés par la plupart des médias, lorsque un politiste répond à la presse, le résultat est souvent un propos de politologue, c’est-à-dire qu’il dit (ou semble dire) des banalités, sans doute pas fausses, mais pas non plus folichonnes à lire ou à entendre.
  2. En remettant en tête des priorités américaines la défense des libertés mise de côté par son prédécesseur, le président Joe Biden est en train de réussir son pari de ressouder les démocraties face au défi chinois, souligne à Pékin le politologue indépendant Hua Po.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oplitologue
  • ploitologue
  • poiltologue
  • poliotlogue
  • politloogue
  • politolgoue
  • politollogue
  • politologeu
  • politologgue
  • politolouge
  • politoolgue
  • polittologue
  • pollitologue
  • poltiologue
  • ppolitologue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of politologue - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

oplitologue2ploitologue2poiltologue2poliotlogue2politloogue2politolgoue2politollogue1politologeu2
Edit distance from "politologue"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "politologue"?
"politologue" is spelled P-O-L-I-T-O-L-O-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔ.li.tɔ.lɔɡ\.
What does "politologue" mean?
As a noun, "politologue" means: Spécialiste de la science politique.
What are common misspellings of "politologue"?
Common misspellings include "oplitologue", "ploitologue", "poiltologue", "poliotlogue", "politloogue". The correct spelling is "politologue".
How do you pronounce "politologue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "politologue" is \pɔ.li.tɔ.lɔɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "politologue" come from?
"politologue" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "politologue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list