polyéthylène
\pɔ.li.e.ti.lɛn\
The verdict
“polyéthylène” is uncommon French (frequency #51,666 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,666
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polymère d'éthylène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polyethylene · polyéthylène · French
polyéthylène · rank #51,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,666
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polygones
Nearest frequency peer: polygones (-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 « polyéthylène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pluriannuel
pluriannuel
48,338 corpus weight
- pluspart
pluspart
48,337 corpus weight
- polygones
polygones
48,336 corpus weight
- polyéthylène
polyéthylène
48,335 corpus weight
- poncelet
poncelet
48,334 corpus weight
- poncho
poncho
48,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polyéthylène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polyéthylène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.e.ti.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polyéthylène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polyéthylène is uncommon French at frequency #51,666 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.e.ti.lɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Polymère d'éthylène.".
No misspelling variants are generated for polyéthylène in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 polyéthylène, spelled P-O-L-Y-É-T-H-Y-L-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Polymère d'éthylène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polyéthylène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hypocondriaque y trouvera des huiles de silicone anti-mousse qui vous déglinguent le foie, des cires en polyéthylène pour enrober les agrumes qui exigeraient qu’on se lave les mains après avoir manipulé les fruits en question, des agents de turbidité (dans les boissons) pouvant provoquer des fausses couches, du sel d’aspartame capable de déclencher des…
L’entreprise va investir 3 milliards d’euros pour construire un « craqueur » qui transformera de l’éthane de schiste américain en éthylène, substance de base pour la production du polyéthylène, donc des granulés de plastique.
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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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