pointage
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,569
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
pointage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de pointer, de marquer sur une liste, sur un registre les noms des absents, des présents, des votants, etc. Pronounced \pwɛ̃.taʒ\. Often confused with pointe and potage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pointage is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃.taʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,569 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for pointage, with forms such as "opintage", "piontage", and "poinatge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "pointe", "potage", "portage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pointage, spelled P-O-I-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
- 1Action de pointer, de marquer sur une liste, sur un registre les noms des absents, des présents, des votants, etc.
- 2Contrôle du temps de présence des employés dans une administration ou dans une entreprise.
- 3Marque, décompte des points dans un jeu, une compétition.
- 4Évaluation d’un bovin ou d’un cheval sur un certain nombre de critères qui entraînent l’attribution de points.
- 5Action de corriger une plaque-cliché en la rognant référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème).
- 6Pointage de souris.
- 7Action de faire le point, de porter des relèvements sur une carte marine.
- 8Action de pointer, de diriger une arme à feu, une pièce d’artillerie vers un but donné.
- 9Action de pointer, de lancer ou faire rouler sa boule le plus près possible du but.
- 10Première période de fermentation panaire
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opintage,piontage,poinatge,poinntage,pointaeg,pointagge,pointgae,pointtage,poitnage,ponitage,ppointage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pointage
Misspelling Variants of "pointage"
Frequency rank: #27,569 in French
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