pointillé
\pwɛ̃.ti.je\
The verdict
“pointillé” is uncommon French (frequency #62,532 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,532
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de peindre, de dessiner, de graver à petits points, en pointillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointille · pointillé · French
pointillé · rank #62,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,532
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pogne
Nearest frequency peer: pogne (-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 « pointillé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pléistocène
pléistocène
37,472 corpus weight
- pogne
pogne
37,470 corpus weight
- pointillé
pointillé
37,469 corpus weight
- Politi
Politi
37,468 corpus weight
- porterez
porterez
37,467 corpus weight
- pourvoit
pourvoit
37,466 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pointillé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointillé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.ti.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pointillé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pointillé is uncommon French at frequency #62,532 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwɛ̃.ti.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pointillé, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pointillé, spelled P-O-I-N-T-I-L-L-É.
Definition
- 1Manière de peindre, de dessiner, de graver à petits points, en pointillant.
- 2Ligne formée par une série de points.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pointillé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dessin au pointillé.
Chez moi, je trouve un paquet de lettres sans intérêt. Mais au milieu, un papier blanc dont je découpe rapidement le pointillé poussé par un obscur instinct.
This word in other languages
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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