heure de pointe
The verdict
“heure de pointe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Période de la journée pendant laquelle une consommation, une fréquentation ou un trafic est le plus important.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heure de pointe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\œʁ də pwɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heure de pointe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for heure de pointe is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\œʁ də pwɛ̃t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for heure de 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 heure de pointe, spelled H-E-U-R-E- -D-E- -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
- 1Période de la journée pendant laquelle une consommation, une fréquentation ou un trafic est le plus important.
- 2Nom donné par plaisanterie aux phases d’érection sexuelle.
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Using “heure de pointe”
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- The one correct French spelling is H-E-U-R-E- -D-E- -P-O-I-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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