pointe du jour
The verdict
“pointe du jour” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Le matin, juste avant le lever du soleil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointe du jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pointe du jour” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pointe du jour is 14 letters long, classified as a noun. 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: "Le matin, juste avant le lever du soleil.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pointe du jour, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pointe du jour, spelled P-O-I-N-T-E- -D-U- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Le matin, juste avant le lever du soleil.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pointe du jour”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-I-N-T-E- -D-U- -J-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.