polypropylène
\pɔ.li.pʁɔ.pi.lɛn\
The verdict
“polypropylène” is uncommon French (frequency #80,526 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,526
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polymère thermoplastique obtenu par polymérisation du propylène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polypropylene · polypropylène · French
polypropylène · rank #80,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,526
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polariser
Nearest frequency peer: polariser (-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 « polypropylène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Poher
Poher
19,478 corpus weight
- polariser
polariser
19,476 corpus weight
- polypropylè…
polypropylène
19,475 corpus weight
- populus
populus
19,473 corpus weight
- portoricains
portoricains
19,472 corpus weight
- Potosi
Potosi
19,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polypropylène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polypropylène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.pʁɔ.pi.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #80,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polypropylène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polypropylène is uncommon French at frequency #80,526 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.pʁɔ.pi.lɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Polymère thermoplastique obtenu par polymérisation du propylène.".
polypropylène doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is polypropylène, spelled P-O-L-Y-P-R-O-P-Y-L-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Polymère thermoplastique obtenu par polymérisation du propylène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polypropylène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le polypropylène est difficilement collable. La technique adoptée est la soudure au miroir ou par rotation.
Il portait une blouse en polypropylène bleue par-dessus son costume, ainsi qu’une cagoule dans la même matière avec des pendants sur le côté.
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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