mettre au point
\mɛ.tʁ‿o pwɛ̃\
The verdict
“mettre au point” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Augmenter ou diminuer le tirage de l’objectif, de manière que l’image soit le plus nette possible.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre au point |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tʁ‿o pwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre au point” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre au point is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.tʁ‿o pwɛ̃\. 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.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mettre au point, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mettre au point, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -P-O-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Augmenter ou diminuer le tirage de l’objectif, de manière que l’image soit le plus nette possible.
- 2Amener à l’état voulu ou prévu, en parlant d'une chose.
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.
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Using “mettre au point”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -A-U- -P-O-I-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛ.tʁ‿o pwɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.