pollueur
\pɔ.lɥœʁ\
The verdict
“pollueur” is uncommon French (frequency #51,051 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,051
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui par son action pollue, souille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pollueur · pollueur · French
pollueur · rank #51,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,051
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plumer
Nearest frequency peer: plumer (-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 « pollueur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pliable
pliable
48,953 corpus weight
- plumer
plumer
48,951 corpus weight
- pollueur
pollueur
48,950 corpus weight
- ponctuées
ponctuées
48,949 corpus weight
- pontons
pontons
48,948 corpus weight
- porcher
porcher
48,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pollueur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pollueur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.lɥœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pollueur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pollueur is uncommon French at frequency #51,051 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.lɥœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui par son action pollue, souille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pollueur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pollueur, spelled P-O-L-L-U-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui par son action pollue, souille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pollueur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un système de récompenses pour les compagnies moins pollueuses qui vendent leurs crédits-carbone non-utilisés à la Bourse pour être achetés par d’autres compagnies qui ont dépassé les limites permises d’émission de gaz à effet de serre et peuvent continuer leurs activités polluantes en achetant ces crédits-carbone.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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