point de base
The verdict
“point de base” 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: Un centième de point de pourcentage. La différence entre 5,00 % et 5,10 % est de 0,1 point de pourcentage, soit 10 points de base. Le symbole est pb ou bp, ou ‱.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | point de base |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ də bɑz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “point de base” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for point de base is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃ də bɑz\. 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: "Un centième de point de pourcentage. La différence entre 5,00 % et 5,10 % est de 0,1 point de pourcentage, soit 10 points de base. Le symbole est pb ou bp, ou ‱.".
No misspelling variants are generated for point de base 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 de base, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -D-E- -B-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un centième de point de pourcentage. La différence entre 5,00 % et 5,10 % est de 0,1 point de pourcentage, soit 10 points de base. Le symbole est pb ou bp, ou ‱.
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Using “point de base”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-N-T- -D-E- -B-A-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pwɛ̃ də bɑz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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