points
/pɔɪnts/noun, verb
points is spelled P-O-I-N-T-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 170 times per million words in written English, the 591st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, points means “Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in points?
| Letters | 6: P-O-I-N-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 170 times per million words; the 591st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 points?
Points appears 170 times per million words in written English, the 591st 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 points?
- /pɔɪnts/
Points has one syllable (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-points.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with points?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as points.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: piston.
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).
What does points mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CommonwealthIrelandUKMovable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
- 2
Exaggerated speech or gestures used for emphasis during a performance.
- 3
plural of point
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of point
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Points in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another:
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.