polyèdre
\pɔ.li.ɛdʁ\
The verdict
“polyèdre” is uncommon French (frequency #86,033 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,033
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Corps solide à plusieurs faces planes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polyèdre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.ɛdʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “polyèdre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
polyèdre is uncommon French at frequency #86,033 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.ɛdʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Corps solide à plusieurs faces planes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for polyèdre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is polyèdre, spelled P-O-L-Y-È-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Corps solide à plusieurs faces planes.
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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Using “polyèdre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-L-Y-È-D-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.