pointera
\pwɛ̃.tə.ʁa\
The verdict
“pointera” is uncommon French (frequency #76,020 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,020
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de pointer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointera · pointera · French
pointera · rank #76,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,020
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polders
Nearest frequency peer: polders (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pointera »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- planquée
planquée
23,985 corpus weight
- plantons
plantons
23,984 corpus weight
- pointera
pointera
23,981 corpus weight
- polders
polders
23,980 corpus weight
- poltergeist
poltergeist
23,979 corpus weight
- Polycarpe
Polycarpe
23,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pointera » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointera |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.tə.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pointera » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pointera is uncommon French at frequency #76,020 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pwɛ̃.tə.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de pointer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pointera, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pointera, spelled P-O-I-N-T-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur de pointer.
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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