pointée
\pwɛ̃.te\
The verdict
“pointée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,528. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,528
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de pointé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointee · pointée · French
pointée · rank #32,528 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,528
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Platini
Nearest frequency peer: Platini (-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 « pointée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pessimistes
pessimistes
67,476 corpus weight
- piétiner
piétiner
67,475 corpus weight
- Platini
Platini
67,474 corpus weight
- pointée
pointée
67,473 corpus weight
- Pompéi
Pompéi
67,472 corpus weight
- ponton
ponton
67,471 corpus weight
What this shows « pointée » 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 | pointée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pointée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pointée (IPA \pwɛ̃.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,528 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de pointé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pointée, with forms such as "opintée", "piontée", and "poinntée". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ponte", "points", "portée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pointée, spelled P-O-I-N-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de pointé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opintée
- piontée
- poinntée
- pointee
- pointeé
- pointtée
- poinéte
- poitnée
- ponitée
- ppointée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pointée - 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 "pointée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).