polythéiste
\pɔ.li.te.ist\
The verdict
“polythéiste” is uncommon French (frequency #98,365 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,365
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractérisé par la croyance en plusieurs divinités (et non en une seule ou aucune).
Corpus desk
Index FR-polytheiste · polythéiste · French
polythéiste · rank #98,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,365
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poissonneux
Nearest frequency peer: poissonneux (-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 « polythéiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pleureurs
pleureurs
1,640 corpus weight
- plébiscitées
plébiscitées
1,638 corpus weight
- poissonneux
poissonneux
1,637 corpus weight
- polythéiste
polythéiste
1,636 corpus weight
- Portofino
Portofino
1,633 corpus weight
- porée
porée
1,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « polythéiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polythéiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.te.ist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « polythéiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
polythéiste is uncommon French at frequency #98,365 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.li.te.ist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for polythéiste in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is polythéiste, spelled P-O-L-Y-T-H-É-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Caractérisé par la croyance en plusieurs divinités (et non en une seule ou aucune).
- 2Adepte du polythéisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polythéiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les religions polythéistes.
Les Hébreux retomberont à plusieurs reprises dans ces « travers » polythéistes, occasionnant chaque fois la punition de ce dieu exclusif.
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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