pointes
French, noun
pointes is spelled P-O-I-N-T-E-S (7 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written French, the 9,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pointes is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of pointe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, pointés is a different word: “masculine plural of pointé”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chaussures à pointes”.
What does pointes mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of pointe
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pointer
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of pointé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chaussures à pointes. 2. Chaussons ayant une plateforme à leur extrémité.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is pointes in French?
pointes appears 6.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).