pointed
/ˈpɔɪnɪd/adjective, verb
pointed is spelled P-O-I-N-T-E-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, pointed means “Sharp, barbed; not dull” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in pointed?
| Letters | 7: P-O-I-N-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 29 times per million words; the 3,218th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is pointed?
Pointed appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce pointed?
- /ˈpɔɪntɪd/
- US /ˈpɔɪnɪd/
Pointed has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-pointed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with pointed?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pointed from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɪnɪd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of pointed
- more pointed comparative
- most pointed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pointed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Sharp, barbed; not dull.
The warrior brandished a pointed spear.
- 2
Having a certain number of points.
a five-pointed star
- 3
Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
- 4
In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat.
- 5
Directed negatively at a person or topic.
a pointed remark
- 6
That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
The class of all pointed spaces forms a category - Top_• - with basepoint preserving continuous maps as morphisms.
- 7
datedprecise, on the dot.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of point
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pointed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sharp at one end:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pointu |
| German | spitz, spitzig |
| Portuguese | pontudo, apontado |
| Spanish | puntiagudo, punzocortante, cortopunzante, punzante |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.