polyphonie
\pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\
The verdict
“polyphonie” is uncommon French (frequency #54,168 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,168
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Superposition organisée de plusieurs lignes mélodiques indépendantes dans une composition musicale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polyphonie · polyphonie · French
polyphonie · rank #54,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,168
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polygame
Nearest frequency peer: polygame (-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 « polyphonie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- politisé
politisé
45,836 corpus weight
- pollard
pollard
45,835 corpus weight
- polygame
polygame
45,834 corpus weight
- polyphonie
polyphonie
45,833 corpus weight
- ponctuent
ponctuent
45,832 corpus weight
- ponctués
ponctués
45,831 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polyphonie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polyphonie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polyphonie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polyphonie is uncommon French at frequency #54,168 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.fɔ.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for polyphonie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is polyphonie, spelled P-O-L-Y-P-H-O-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Superposition organisée de plusieurs lignes mélodiques indépendantes dans une composition musicale.
- 2Présence simultanée de plusieurs voix, points de vue ou instances énonciatives dans un discours, produisant un effet de diversité ou de confrontation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how polyphonie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vraie question : comment accorder la durée des beautés musicales avec la mutabilité du langage musical ? - Exemples de celle-ci : le plain-chant, la polyphonie chorale de la Renaissance, les révolutions modernes de l'harmonie.
Antonyms
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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