polyphonie

/\pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#54,168

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

polyphonie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Superposition organisée de plusieurs lignes mélodiques indépendantes dans une composition musicale. Pronounced \pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\.

Key facts for polyphonie
PropertyValue
Headwordpolyphonie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\
Letters10
Frequency rank#54,168
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for polyphonie is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #54,168 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for polyphonie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 polyphonie, spelled P-O-L-Y-P-H-O-N-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Superposition organisée de plusieurs lignes mélodiques indépendantes dans une composition musicale.
  2. 2
    Présence simultanée de plusieurs voix, points de vue ou instances énonciatives dans un discours, produisant un effet de diversité ou de confrontation.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #54,168 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "polyphonie"?
"polyphonie" is spelled P-O-L-Y-P-H-O-N-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\.
What does "polyphonie" mean?
As a noun, "polyphonie" means: Superposition organisée de plusieurs lignes mélodiques indépendantes dans une composition musicale.
How do you pronounce "polyphonie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "polyphonie" is \pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "polyphonie" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.