polyphème
\pɔ.li.fɛm\
The verdict
“polyphème” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne rappelant Polyphème, géant hirsute aveuglé par Ulysse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polypheme · polyphème · French
polyphème · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polyphème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.fɛm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
polyphème is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.fɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
polyphème has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is polyphème, spelled P-O-L-Y-P-H-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Personne rappelant Polyphème, géant hirsute aveuglé par Ulysse.
- 2Polyphème d’Amérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polyphème appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que lui auront fait ces polyphèmes à moitié aveugles ?
Le polyphème ne se nourrit pas au stade adulte. La chenille mange les feuilles de divers feuillus, tels que le bouleau, le saule, l'érable, l'orme etc.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.