pointent
\pwɛ̃t\
The verdict
“pointent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,830. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,830
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pointer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointent · pointent · French
pointent · rank #18,830 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,830
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleurant
Nearest frequency peer: pleurant (-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 « pointent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pions
pions
81,174 corpus weight
- piètre
piètre
81,173 corpus weight
- pleurant
pleurant
81,172 corpus weight
- pointent
pointent
81,171 corpus weight
- ponte
ponte
81,170 corpus weight
- poésies
poésies
81,168 corpus weight
What this shows « pointent » 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 | pointent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pointent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pointent (IPA \pwɛ̃t\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,830 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pointent, with forms such as "opintent", "piontent", and "poinetnt". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "pontet", "portent", "pointes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 pointent, spelled P-O-I-N-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pointer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de pointer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opintent
- piontent
- poinetnt
- poinntent
- pointennt
- pointentt
- pointetn
- pointnet
- pointtent
- poitnent
- ponitent
- ppointent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pointent - 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 "pointent", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).