polyphonique
\pɔ.li.fɔ.nik\
The verdict
“polyphonique” is uncommon French (frequency #58,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,172
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui procède de la polyphonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polyphonique · polyphonique · French
polyphonique · rank #58,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,172
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pollack
Nearest frequency peer: pollack (-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 « polyphonique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pochoir
pochoir
41,832 corpus weight
- pogroms
pogroms
41,831 corpus weight
- pollack
pollack
41,830 corpus weight
- polyphonique
polyphonique
41,829 corpus weight
- pondérer
pondérer
41,828 corpus weight
- populi
populi
41,826 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polyphonique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polyphonique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.fɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polyphonique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polyphonique is uncommon French at frequency #58,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.li.fɔ.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for polyphonique, 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is polyphonique, spelled P-O-L-Y-P-H-O-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui procède de la polyphonie.
- 2Où s'expriment des voix multiples et diverses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polyphonique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leurs ronflements mêlés comme une tresse polyphonique, rythmée sur un souffle paisible, métamorphosèrent les locaux des douanes en caisse de résonance.
L’ensemble donne lieu à une sorte de variation polyphonique involontaire … : « Henri se meurt », écrit Alix à sa mère … ; « Henri est mort », confie Paul à un ami, à la page suivante ; « Henri n’est plus », ajoute leur mère, écrivant à son mari, une page plus loin.
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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