polynésien
\pɔ.li.nez.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“polynésien” is uncommon French (frequency #52,908 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,908
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Polynésie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polynesien · polynésien · French
polynésien · rank #52,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,908
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pollet
Nearest frequency peer: Pollet (-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 « polynésien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PLM
PLM
47,096 corpus weight
- polka
polka
47,095 corpus weight
- Pollet
Pollet
47,094 corpus weight
- polynésien
polynésien
47,093 corpus weight
- polynésiens
polynésiens
47,092 corpus weight
- ponta
ponta
47,091 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polynésien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polynésien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.nez.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polynésien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polynésien is uncommon French at frequency #52,908 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.li.nez.jɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la Polynésie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for polynésien, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is polynésien, spelled P-O-L-Y-N-É-S-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Polynésie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how polynésien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par « Malayo-Polynésiens », je désigne l’ensemble des peuples indonésiens, mélanésiens et polynésiens, qui, du point de vue ethnographique et surtout anthropologique, ont chacun leur individualité; mais qui parlent des langues nettement apparentées.
Synonyms
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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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