poll
\pɔl\
The verdict
“poll” is uncommon French (frequency #64,698 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,698
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poll · poll · French
poll · rank #64,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,698
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Politik
Nearest frequency peer: Politik (-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 « poll »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poetry
poetry
35,306 corpus weight
- poitrail
poitrail
35,305 corpus weight
- Politik
Politik
35,304 corpus weight
- poll
poll
35,303 corpus weight
- polygraphe
polygraphe
35,302 corpus weight
- polymérisat…
polymérisation
35,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poll » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poll |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poll » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poll is uncommon French at frequency #64,698 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vote.".
Zero misspellings are on record for poll in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is poll, spelled P-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1Vote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Demander le poll, demander le passage au vote, dans les élections des membres de la chambre des communes, en Angleterre.
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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