point haut
\pwɛ̃ o\
The verdict
“point haut” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Signe de ponctuation du grec ancien et du grec moderne ; représenté par le caractère Unicode ano teleia · U+0387 ou le caractère Unicode point médian · U+00B7.
Corpus desk
Index FR-point-haut · point haut · French
point haut · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | point haut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ o\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « point haut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
point haut is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwɛ̃ o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Signe de ponctuation du grec ancien et du grec moderne ; représenté par le caractère Unicode ano teleia · U+0387 ou le caractère Unicode point médian · U+00B7.".
point haut doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is point haut, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -H-A-U-T.
Definition
- 1Signe de ponctuation du grec ancien et du grec moderne ; représenté par le caractère Unicode ano teleia · U+0387 ou le caractère Unicode point médian · U+00B7.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how point haut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot ponctuation vient du latin punctum, point. C’est en effet le point qui est apparu le premier comme signe de ponctuation deux cents ans avant Jésus-Christ, préconisé par le grammairien grec Aristophane de Byzance qui utilisait le point en trois positions : 1ᵒ le point parfait ou point haut qui valait notre point ; 2ᵒ le point moyen, situé au milieu,…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.