mettre au point
\mɛ.tʁ‿o pwɛ̃\
The verdict
“mettre au point” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Augmenter ou diminuer le tirage de l’objectif, de manière que l’image soit le plus nette possible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettre-au-point · mettre au point · French
mettre au point · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « mettre au point » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mettre au point is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.tʁ‿o pwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mettre au point appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; je devrais mettre au point cet article sur le tableau de l’Angelico du Louvre que je m’étais engagé à livrer, il y a au moins quatre mois, à la Revue qui me le réclame, chaque matin, par lettre.
Voici, par exemple, l'anglais Baskerville (1706-1775) qui, après avoir été maître d'écriture et graveur de pierres tombales, commence en 1750 à s'occuper de typographie, passe deux ans à dessiner ses caractères et à faire graver ses poinçons et met en même temps au point un procédé de fabrication de papier satiné sans vergeûres — le papier vélin.
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.