polygame
\pɔ.li.ɡam\
The verdict
“polygame” is uncommon French (frequency #54,167 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,167
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est marié ou uni à plusieurs femmes, qui est mariée ou unie à plusieurs hommes en même temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polygame · polygame · French
polygame · rank #54,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,167
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pollard
Nearest frequency peer: pollard (-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 « polygame »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PNR
PNR
45,837 corpus weight
- politisé
politisé
45,836 corpus weight
- pollard
pollard
45,835 corpus weight
- polygame
polygame
45,834 corpus weight
- polyphonie
polyphonie
45,833 corpus weight
- ponctuent
ponctuent
45,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polygame » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polygame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.ɡam\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polygame » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polygame is uncommon French at frequency #54,167 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.li.ɡam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
polygame has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is polygame, spelled P-O-L-Y-G-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est marié ou uni à plusieurs femmes, qui est mariée ou unie à plusieurs hommes en même temps.
- 2Qui est marié ou uni à plusieurs femmes, qui est mariée ou unie à plusieurs hommes en même temps.
- 3Plantes qui portent sur le même pied des fleurs hermaphrodites et des fleurs les unes mâles, les autres femelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polygame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle est polygame.
L’avocat de l’homme accusé par Brice Hortefeux d’être polygame et de frauder les allocations familiales fait savoir qu’il envisage de poursuivre le ministre français de l’Intérieur en diffamation.
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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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