polythéisme
\pɔ.li.te.ism\
The verdict
“polythéisme” is uncommon French (frequency #76,025 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,025
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Religion admettant l’existence de plusieurs dieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polytheisme · polythéisme · French
polythéisme · rank #76,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,025
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polychromie
Nearest frequency peer: polychromie (-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 « polythéisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poltergeist
poltergeist
23,979 corpus weight
- Polycarpe
Polycarpe
23,978 corpus weight
- polychromie
polychromie
23,977 corpus weight
- polythéisme
polythéisme
23,976 corpus weight
- popol
popol
23,975 corpus weight
- Popov
Popov
23,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polythéisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polythéisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.te.ism\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polythéisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polythéisme is uncommon French at frequency #76,025 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.li.te.ism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Religion admettant l’existence de plusieurs dieux.".
polythéisme has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is polythéisme, spelled P-O-L-Y-T-H-É-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Religion admettant l’existence de plusieurs dieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polythéisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Près du Thabor, grande chapelle ; la Vierge est sur l’autel avec l’enfant Jésus, tous deux couronnés ; elle est vraiment la reine et la déesse. Parfois il semble que le catholicisme soit un polythéisme retourné, dans lequel, au lieu d’êtres forts, on adore des êtres malheureux et tendres.
Pour s’expliquer à elle-même et pour lui faire comprendre à lui ses péchés perpétuels, la mère Chapdelaine s’était façonné une sorte de polythéisme compliqué, tout un monde surnaturel où des génies néfastes ou bienveillants le poussaient tour à tour à la faute et au repentir.
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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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