pointa
\pwɛ̃.ta\
The verdict
“pointa” is uncommon French (frequency #74,285 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,285
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pointer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointa · pointa · French
pointa · rank #74,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,285
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poet
Nearest frequency peer: poet (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pointa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- planchette
planchette
25,719 corpus weight
- plébiscitent
plébiscitent
25,718 corpus weight
- poet
poet
25,717 corpus weight
- pointa
pointa
25,716 corpus weight
- polaroïd
polaroïd
25,715 corpus weight
- polysémie
polysémie
25,714 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pointa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pointa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pointa is uncommon French at frequency #74,285 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pwɛ̃.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pointer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pointa, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pointa, spelled P-O-I-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pointer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pointa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arrivé au bas du mamelon central, le lieutenant Borély mit, comme il le put, avec la plus grande célérité, sa pièce en batterie, courut de sa personne au coffre désétouper les munitions, chargea, pointa sur la masse des assaillants qui, à ce moment encore étaient perdus dans le brouillard, et tira le premier coup de canon de son côté, le coup de canon pou…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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