polygraphe
\pɔ.li.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“polygraphe” is uncommon French (frequency #64,699 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,699
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auteur qui écrit sur plusieurs matières.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polygraphe · polygraphe · French
polygraphe · rank #64,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,699
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poll
Nearest frequency peer: poll (-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 « polygraphe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poitrail
poitrail
35,305 corpus weight
- Politik
Politik
35,304 corpus weight
- poll
poll
35,303 corpus weight
- polygraphe
polygraphe
35,302 corpus weight
- polymérisat…
polymérisation
35,301 corpus weight
- porcins
porcins
35,300 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polygraphe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polygraphe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polygraphe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polygraphe is uncommon French at frequency #64,699 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for polygraphe in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 polygraphe, spelled P-O-L-Y-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Auteur qui écrit sur plusieurs matières.
- 2Qui traite de plusieurs sujets sans les maîtriser, en parlant de journalistes.
- 3Personne qui, avec l’aide d’un ordinateur, compose, organise du texte et des images avant son impression.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polygraphe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les polygraphes forment une classe particulière dans les catalogues des bibliothèques.
C’est punir en crime un petit délit et faire subir à Stendhal romancier la peine encourue par Stendhal polygraphe.
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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