turning point
"turning-point" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“turning 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A decisive point at which a significant change or historical event occurs, or at which a decision must be made.
Corpus desk
Index EN-turning-point · turning point · English
turning point · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | turning point |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “turning point” in English
Rare enough to double-check
turning point is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for turning point, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is turning point, spelled T-U-R-N-I-N-G- -P-O-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1A decisive point at which a significant change or historical event occurs, or at which a decision must be made.
- 2A maximum or minimum on a graph.
- 3A crossroads.
- 4A T-junction.
- 5A place at which one changes their direction of travel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how turning point appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road / Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
Europe will be watching the final battle closely. A Hollande victory in the second round would be a turning point in European politics, a rare victory for the left in Europe, which has in recent years moved towards the right
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.