appointir
\a.pwɛ̃.tiʁ\
The verdict
“appointir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tailler en pointe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appointir · appointir · French
appointir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | appointir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pwɛ̃.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appointir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appointir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pwɛ̃.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
appointir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is appointir, spelled A-P-P-O-I-N-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Tailler en pointe.
- 2Précipitamment elle tire son mouchoir, frotte sa joue et fait deux petits pas en tendant sa figure appointie. — (Léon Frapié, La conquête de Rose, dans Les contes de la maternelle, éditions Self, 1945, page 14)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appointir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Appointir des aiguilles.
Synonyms
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.