polysémique
\pɔ.li.se.mik\
The verdict
“polysémique” is an uncommon French word, ranked #86,032 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #86,032
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui a plusieurs significations ou sens, nettement différenciés, en parlant d’un signifiant, mot ou locution nominale et à chacun desquels correspondent des synonymes, des antonymes et des traductio...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polysémique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.se.mik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “polysémique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for polysémique is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.li.se.mik\. Corpus data places it at rank #86,032 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui a plusieurs significations ou sens, nettement différenciés, en parlant d’un signifiant, mot ou locution nominale et à chacun desquels correspondent des synonymes, des antonymes et des traductio...".
No misspelling variants are generated for polysémique in our index, 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is polysémique, spelled P-O-L-Y-S-É-M-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a plusieurs significations ou sens, nettement différenciés, en parlant d’un signifiant, mot ou locution nominale et à chacun desquels correspondent des synonymes, des antonymes et des traductions différents.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-L-Y-S-É-M-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔ.li.se.mik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.