polygamie

/\po.li.ɡa.mi\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#24,723

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

polygamie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Relation conjugale où une personne est mariée à plusieurs autres à la fois. Pronounced \po.li.ɡa.mi\.

Key facts for polygamie
PropertyValue
Headwordpolygamie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\po.li.ɡa.mi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#24,723
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of polygamie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for polygamie is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po.li.ɡa.mi\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,723 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.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for polygamie, with forms such as "oplygamie", "ploygamie", and "polgyamie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 polygamie, spelled P-O-L-Y-G-A-M-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relation conjugale où une personne est mariée à plusieurs autres à la fois.
  2. 2
    Polygynie, forme la plus répandue chez les humains de la polygamie.
  3. 3
    Classe du système de Linné, qui renferme les plantes qui portent des fleurs staminées ou pistillées, ou stamino-pistillées sur un ou plusieurs individus.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oplygamie,ploygamie,polgyamie,pollygamie,polyagmie,polygaime,polygamei,polygammie,polyggamie,polygmaie,polyygamie,poylgamie,ppolygamie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for polygamie

Misspelling Variants of "polygamie"

oplygamie9ploygamie9polgyamie9pollygamie10polyagmie9polygaime9polygamei9polygammie10
Misspelling Variants of "polygamie"

Frequency rank: #24,723 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "polygamie"?
"polygamie" is spelled P-O-L-Y-G-A-M-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \po.li.ɡa.mi\.
What does "polygamie" mean?
As a noun, "polygamie" means: Relation conjugale où une personne est mariée à plusieurs autres à la fois.
What are common misspellings of "polygamie"?
Common misspellings include "oplygamie", "ploygamie", "polgyamie", "pollygamie", "polyagmie". The correct spelling is "polygamie".
How do you pronounce "polygamie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "polygamie" is \po.li.ɡa.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "polygamie" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.