polyèdre
\pɔ.li.ɛdʁ\
The verdict
“polyèdre” is uncommon French (frequency #86,033 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,033
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps solide à plusieurs faces planes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polyedre · polyèdre · French
polyèdre · rank #86,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,033
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polysémique
Nearest frequency peer: polysémique (-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 « polyèdre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pneumopathie
pneumopathie
13,973 corpus weight
- pof
pof
13,972 corpus weight
- politicard
politicard
13,970 corpus weight
- polysémique
polysémique
13,969 corpus weight
- polyèdre
polyèdre
13,968 corpus weight
- pongo
pongo
13,966 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polyèdre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « polyèdre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polyèdre is uncommon French at frequency #86,033 among 6,826 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polyèdre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, en dehors de l’icosaèdre d'où dérivent les dômes géodésiques, on connaît un grand nombre de polyèdres : platoniques, archimédiens, duals, composites, etc. et il n'y a aucune raison de se restreindre à l'utilisation d'un seul spécimen, […].
Dans le dépôt qui sentait le café, nous jouions aux cartes sur un tonneau d’épices comme sur un bateau-corsaire ; nous fumions témérairement des pipes en terre ; le jour qui tombait du hublot découpait dans le clair-obscur un grand polyèdre glauque ; sur les caisses blanches, les renseignements en diagonale étaient inscrits en anglais.
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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