point de pourcentage
\pwɛ̃ də puʁ.sɑ̃.taʒ\
The verdict
“point de pourcentage” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Unité de la différence de deux pourcentages calculée par la soustraction des deux valeurs indiquées en pour cent. Par exemple, la différence entre 20 % et 30 % est de 10 points de pourcentage, non ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | point de pourcentage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ də puʁ.sɑ̃.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “point de pourcentage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for point de pourcentage is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃ də puʁ.sɑ̃.taʒ\. 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: "Unité de la différence de deux pourcentages calculée par la soustraction des deux valeurs indiquées en pour cent. Par exemple, la différence entre 20 % et 30 % est de 10 points de pourcentage, non ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for point de pourcentage 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 pourcentage, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -D-E- -P-O-U-R-C-E-N-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unité de la différence de deux pourcentages calculée par la soustraction des deux valeurs indiquées en pour cent. Par exemple, la différence entre 20 % et 30 % est de 10 points de pourcentage, non pas de 10 %.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-N-T- -D-E- -P-O-U-R-C-E-N-T-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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