pointilleuse
\pwɛ̃.ti.jøz\
The verdict
“pointilleuse” is uncommon French (frequency #93,103 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,103
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de pointilleux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointilleuse · pointilleuse · French
pointilleuse · rank #93,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,103
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaquant
Nearest frequency peer: plaquant (-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 « pointilleuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaideur
plaideur
6,901 corpus weight
- planchettes
planchettes
6,900 corpus weight
- plaquant
plaquant
6,899 corpus weight
- pointilleuse
pointilleuse
6,898 corpus weight
- portillons
portillons
6,897 corpus weight
- poupette
poupette
6,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pointilleuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pointilleuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.ti.jøz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pointilleuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pointilleuse is uncommon French at frequency #93,103 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pwɛ̃.ti.jøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de pointilleux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pointilleuse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pointilleuse, spelled P-O-I-N-T-I-L-L-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de pointilleux.
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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