pointant
\pwɛ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“pointant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,425. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,425
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de pointer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointant · pointant · French
pointant · rank #21,425 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,425
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pluvieux
Nearest frequency peer: pluvieux (-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 « pointant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plant
plant
78,579 corpus weight
- PLC
PLC
78,578 corpus weight
- pluvieux
pluvieux
78,577 corpus weight
- pointant
pointant
78,576 corpus weight
- ponctuellem…
ponctuellement
78,574 corpus weight
- Pratt
Pratt
78,573 corpus weight
What this shows « pointant » 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 | pointant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pointant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pointant (IPA \pwɛ̃.tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,425 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de pointer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pointant, with forms such as "opintant", "piontant", and "poinatnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "portant", "postant", "pourtant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pointant, spelled P-O-I-N-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de pointer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pointant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« C’est l’exécutif qui crée le désordre et l’instabilité » rétorque-t-elle, en pointant la politique « ultralibérale et autoritaire » d’Emmanuel Macron, « compatible avec une institutionnalisation de l’extrême droite ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opintant
- piontant
- poinatnt
- poinntant
- pointannt
- pointantt
- pointatn
- pointnat
- pointtant
- poitnant
- ponitant
- ppointant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pointant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).