pointait
\pwɛ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“pointait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,485
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pointer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointait · pointait · French
pointait · rank #37,485 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,485
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pliant
Nearest frequency peer: pliant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pointait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pirogue
pirogue
62,519 corpus weight
- plaident
plaident
62,518 corpus weight
- pliant
pliant
62,517 corpus weight
- pointait
pointait
62,516 corpus weight
- poitrines
poitrines
62,514 corpus weight
- Portman
Portman
62,513 corpus weight
What this shows « pointait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pointait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pointait (IPA \pwɛ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,485 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pointer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pointait, with forms such as "opintait", "piontait", and "poinatit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "portait", "pointent", "pointant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pointait, spelled P-O-I-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pointer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pointait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a quelques jours, sur Twitter, le consultant en innovation éditoriale de France Info, Maxime Loisel, pointait du doigt la présence d’un communiqué, publié par TotalEnergies.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opintait
- piontait
- poinatit
- poinntait
- pointaitt
- pointati
- pointiat
- pointtait
- poitnait
- ponitait
- ppointait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pointait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pointait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).