pollard
The verdict
“pollard” is uncommon French (frequency #54,166 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,166
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monnaie anglaise de peu de valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pollard · pollard · French
pollard · rank #54,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,166
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH politisé
Nearest frequency peer: politisé (-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 « pollard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pléthorique
pléthorique
45,838 corpus weight
- PNR
PNR
45,837 corpus weight
- politisé
politisé
45,836 corpus weight
- pollard
pollard
45,835 corpus weight
- polygame
polygame
45,834 corpus weight
- polyphonie
polyphonie
45,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pollard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pollard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pollard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pollard is uncommon French at frequency #54,166 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Monnaie anglaise de peu de valeur.".
pollard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pollard, spelled P-O-L-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Monnaie anglaise de peu de valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pollard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…le pollard ne le crocard pur maille de esterling.
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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