de vair en pointe
\də vɛ.ʁ‿ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\
The verdict
“de vair en pointe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Indique l’usage d’une variation de la fourrure de vair sur un élément (écu, partition, pièce, meuble…) des armoiries. Il s’agit d'une inversion des émaux des cloches des tires paires. Il se crée al...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de vair en pointe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \də vɛ.ʁ‿ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de vair en pointe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de vair en pointe is 17 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də vɛ.ʁ‿ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Indique l’usage d’une variation de la fourrure de vair sur un élément (écu, partition, pièce, meuble…) des armoiries. Il s’agit d'une inversion des émaux des cloches des tires paires. Il se crée al...".
No misspelling variants are generated for de vair en pointe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is de vair en pointe, spelled D-E- -V-A-I-R- -E-N- -P-O-I-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Indique l’usage d’une variation de la fourrure de vair sur un élément (écu, partition, pièce, meuble…) des armoiries. Il s’agit d'une inversion des émaux des cloches des tires paires. Il se crée alors un motif sinusoïdal. Le nombre de lignes ou de cloches doit être blasonné s’il diffère de l’ordinaire.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -V-A-I-R- -E-N- -P-O-I-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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