polygonal
\pɔ.li.ɡɔ.nal\
The verdict
“polygonal” is uncommon French (frequency #96,256 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,256
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a plusieurs angles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polygonal · polygonal · French
polygonal · rank #96,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,256
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polder
Nearest frequency peer: polder (-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 « polygonal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pneumonies
pneumonies
3,748 corpus weight
- poissant
poissant
3,747 corpus weight
- polder
polder
3,746 corpus weight
- polygonal
polygonal
3,745 corpus weight
- Pombal
Pombal
3,744 corpus weight
- pommeraie
pommeraie
3,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polygonal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polygonal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.ɡɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polygonal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polygonal is uncommon French at frequency #96,256 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.li.ɡɔ.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for polygonal, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is polygonal, spelled P-O-L-Y-G-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a plusieurs angles.
- 2Qualifie les solides dont la base est un polygone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polygonal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un premier faisceau groupe les monuments qu’il est convenu de dénommer dolmens (d’un terme breton dol-men signifiant « table de pierre » créé à la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle) et se composant essentiellement d’une chambre circulaire, polygonale ou quadrangulaire, précédée ou non d’une galerie d’accès (couloir ou corridor).
Prisme polygonal. - Pyramide polygonale.
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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