pointes
\pwɛ̃t\
The verdict
“pointes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,724
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaussures à pointes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointes · pointes · French
pointes · rank #9,724 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,724
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poignet
Nearest frequency peer: poignet (-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 « pointes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plains
plains
90,280 corpus weight
- pleurs
pleurs
90,279 corpus weight
- poignet
poignet
90,278 corpus weight
- pointes
pointes
90,277 corpus weight
- profitant
profitant
90,276 corpus weight
- précautions
précautions
90,275 corpus weight
What this shows « pointes » 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 | pointes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pointes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pointes (IPA \pwɛ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,724 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pointes, with forms such as "opintes", "piontes", and "poinets". 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, "potes", "ponts", "ponte", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pointes, spelled P-O-I-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Chaussures à pointes.
- 2Chaussons ayant une plateforme à leur extrémité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pointes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après l’échauffement, quand je revenais dans les tribunes à ses côtés pour enfiler mes pointes, je savais qu’il allait me dire : « Enlève pas ton survêt trop tôt ! »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opintes
- piontes
- poinets
- poinntes
- pointess
- pointse
- pointtes
- poitnes
- ponites
- ppointes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pointes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "pointes", 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).