point de congélation
\pwɛ̃ də kɔ̃.ʒe.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“point de congélation” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Température à laquelle un corps passe de l’état liquide, voire gazeux, à l’état solide.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | point de congélation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ də kɔ̃.ʒe.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “point de congélation” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for point de congélation is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃ də kɔ̃.ʒe.la.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Température à laquelle un corps passe de l’état liquide, voire gazeux, à l’état solide.".
No misspelling variants are generated for point de congélation 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 congélation, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -D-E- -C-O-N-G-É-L-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Température à laquelle un corps passe de l’état liquide, voire gazeux, à l’état solide.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-N-T- -D-E- -C-O-N-G-É-L-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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