polystyrène
\pɔ.lis.ti.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“polystyrène” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #45,233 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #45,233
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Thermoplastique obtenu par la polymérisation des monomères de styrène.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polystyrène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.lis.ti.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #45,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “polystyrène” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for polystyrène is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.lis.ti.ʁɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,233 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.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for polystyrène, with forms such as "oplystyrène", "ploystyrène", and "pollystyrène". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 polystyrène, spelled P-O-L-Y-S-T-Y-R-È-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Thermoplastique obtenu par la polymérisation des monomères de styrène.
- 2Polystyrène expansé, mousse blanche et compacte, constituée de ce thermoplastique, utilisée le plus souvent comme isolant thermique et comme emballage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oplystyrène,ploystyrène,pollystyrène,polsytyrène,polysstyrène,polystryène,polysttyrène,polystyrene,polystyrnèe,polystyrrène,polystyrèen,polystyrènne,polystyyrène,polystyèrne,polysytrène,polytsyrène,polyystyrène,poylstyrène,ppolystyrène
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of polystyrène - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “polystyrène”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-L-Y-S-T-Y-R-È-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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