point aveugle
The verdict
“point aveugle” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Partie de la rétine où s’insère le nerf optique et qui est ainsi complètement aveugle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | point aveugle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ a.vœɡl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “point aveugle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for point aveugle is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃ a.vœɡl\. 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: "Partie de la rétine où s’insère le nerf optique et qui est ainsi complètement aveugle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for point aveugle 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 point aveugle, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -A-V-E-U-G-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de la rétine où s’insère le nerf optique et qui est ainsi complètement aveugle.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-N-T- -A-V-E-U-G-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pwɛ̃ a.vœɡl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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