pointez
\pwɛ̃.te\
The verdict
“pointez” is uncommon French (frequency #77,800 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,800
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pointer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointez · pointez · French
pointez · rank #77,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,800
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plèvre
Nearest frequency peer: plèvre (-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 « pointez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PLUi
PLUi
22,204 corpus weight
- plural
plural
22,203 corpus weight
- plèvre
plèvre
22,202 corpus weight
- pointez
pointez
22,201 corpus weight
- poivrer
poivrer
22,199 corpus weight
- populo
populo
22,197 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pointez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pointez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pointez is uncommon French at frequency #77,800 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pwɛ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pointez in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pointez, spelled P-O-I-N-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pointer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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