polycarbonate
\pɔ.li.kaʁ.bɔ.nat\
The verdict
“polycarbonate” is uncommon French (frequency #87,957 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,957
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polymère peu inflammable issu de la polycondensation du bisphénol A et d'un carbonate ou du phosgène, ou par transestérification.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polycarbonate · polycarbonate · French
polycarbonate · rank #87,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,957
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polarisées
Nearest frequency peer: polarisées (-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 « polycarbonate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pléthoriques
pléthoriques
12,049 corpus weight
- Pochettino
Pochettino
12,048 corpus weight
- polarisées
polarisées
12,045 corpus weight
- polycarbona…
polycarbonate
12,044 corpus weight
- polyphoniqu…
polyphoniques
12,043 corpus weight
- Pommery
Pommery
12,041 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polycarbonate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polycarbonate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.kaʁ.bɔ.nat\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #87,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polycarbonate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polycarbonate is uncommon French at frequency #87,957 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.kaʁ.bɔ.nat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Polymère peu inflammable issu de la polycondensation du bisphénol A et d'un carbonate ou du phosgène, ou par transestérification.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for polycarbonate, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is polycarbonate, spelled P-O-L-Y-C-A-R-B-O-N-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Polymère peu inflammable issu de la polycondensation du bisphénol A et d'un carbonate ou du phosgène, ou par transestérification.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how polycarbonate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La marque reprendra le boîtier blanc en polycarbonate utilisé dans sa défunte gamme de MacBook pour lancer des iPhone à bas prix cet été - et tout cela en plus des télévisions, « phablettes » et iPads entièrement repensés en préparation pour l'année à venir.
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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