polygame
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,167
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
polygame is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est marié ou uni à plusieurs femmes, qui est mariée ou unie à plusieurs hommes en même temps. Pronounced \pɔ.li.ɡam\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polygame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.ɡam\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for polygame is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.li.ɡam\. Corpus data places it at rank #54,167 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for polygame in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is polygame, spelled P-O-L-Y-G-A-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Frequency rank: #54,167 in French
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