pointe de Gaza
The verdict
“pointe de Gaza” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Autre nom de la bande de Gaza, en particulier quand elle était rattachée à l’Égypte (1948-1957).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointe de Gaza |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃t də ɡa.za\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pointe de Gaza” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pointe de Gaza is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃t də ɡa.za\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Autre nom de la bande de Gaza, en particulier quand elle était rattachée à l’Égypte (1948-1957).".
No misspelling variants are generated for pointe de Gaza in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 pointe de Gaza, spelled P-O-I-N-T-E- -D-E- -G-A-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Autre nom de la bande de Gaza, en particulier quand elle était rattachée à l’Égypte (1948-1957).
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Using “pointe de Gaza”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-N-T-E- -D-E- -G-A-Z-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pwɛ̃t də ɡa.za\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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