breaking point
"breaking-point" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breaking point” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The point at which the increasing strain in a material causes it to break.
Corpus desk
Index EN-breaking-point · breaking point · English
breaking point · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | breaking point |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “breaking point” in English
Rare enough to double-check
breaking point is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
breaking point has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is breaking point, spelled B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G- -P-O-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1The point at which the increasing strain in a material causes it to break.
- 2The point at which a person or system succumbs to stresses or pressures and descends into crisis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how breaking point appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Even before Hurricane Sandy, New York was sheltering more homeless people than any city in the United States: a record 47,000 women, men and children, in a system strained to the breaking point.
But it was on the Epstein issue that her clash with the president reached its apparent breaking point.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.