point mort
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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tracked variants
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point mort is aFrenchnoun. It means: Point où deux forces se rencontrent en se faisant équilibre l’une à l’autre, de manière à arrêter le mouvement. Pronounced \pwɛ̃ mɔʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | point mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for point mort is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃ mɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for point mort in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 mort, spelled P-O-I-N-T- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Point où deux forces se rencontrent en se faisant équilibre l’une à l’autre, de manière à arrêter le mouvement.
- 2Situation en cours où celle-ci semble ne pas évoluer vers une issue quelconque, mais stagne.
- 3Figé, sans expression.
- 4Position du levier de vitesse ou sélecteur de vitesse telle que, dans la boîte de vitesses, l’arbre primaire n’entraîne pas l’arbre secondaire et où le moteur est découplé des roues.
- 5Point extrême de la course d'un piston d'un moteur à explosion.
- 6Seuil de rentabilité d’une production vendue.
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