polyculture
\pɔ.li.kyl.tyʁ\
The verdict
“polyculture” is uncommon French (frequency #67,782 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,782
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de cultiver plusieurs espèces de plantes dans une même exploitation agricole ou une même région.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polyculture · polyculture · French
polyculture · rank #67,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,782
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pola
Nearest frequency peer: pola (-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 « polyculture »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaidoyers
plaidoyers
32,222 corpus weight
- pogner
pogner
32,221 corpus weight
- pola
pola
32,220 corpus weight
- polyculture
polyculture
32,219 corpus weight
- pondérés
pondérés
32,218 corpus weight
- Portia
Portia
32,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polyculture » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polyculture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.kyl.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polyculture » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polyculture is uncommon French at frequency #67,782 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.kyl.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait de cultiver plusieurs espèces de plantes dans une même exploitation agricole ou une même région.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for polyculture, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is polyculture, spelled P-O-L-Y-C-U-L-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fait de cultiver plusieurs espèces de plantes dans une même exploitation agricole ou une même région.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polyculture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ferme a abandonné la polyculture traditionnelle pour se spécialiser dans les framboises.
La polyculture est le fait de cultiver plusieurs espèces végétales de famille différente au sein d’un même espace, c’est l'inverse de la monoculture.
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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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