point de rupture
\pwɛ̃ də ʁyp.tyʁ\
The verdict
“point de rupture” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Point, limite au-delà de laquelle une chose, un objet se brise sous l’effet de contraintes ou de tensions excessives.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | point de rupture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ də ʁyp.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “point de rupture” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for point de rupture is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃ də ʁyp.tyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for point de rupture 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 rupture, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -D-E- -R-U-P-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Point, limite au-delà de laquelle une chose, un objet se brise sous l’effet de contraintes ou de tensions excessives.
- 2Degré limite où quelque chose se casse ; point critique ; degré de tension extrême.
- 3Endroit, zone où est initiée ou se produit la rupture d’un objet, d’une structure.
- 4Endroit, zone (au sens 3) où une rupture est programmée (intentionnelle) en cas de surcharge ou de collision, de sorte à la localiser et en limiter les dégâts et risques. Une telle structure est souvent dite « frangible », avec une rupture dite « programmée ».
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-N-T- -D-E- -R-U-P-T-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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