points de suspension
Letters
20 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
points de suspension is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ellipse, signe typographique composé de trois points, « … » : Pronounced \pwɛ̃ də sys.pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | points de suspension |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃ də sys.pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for points de suspension is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃ də sys.pɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for points de suspension in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is points de suspension, spelled P-O-I-N-T-S- -D-E- -S-U-S-P-E-N-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ellipse, signe typographique composé de trois points, « … » :
- 2Ellipse, signe typographique composé de trois points, « … » :
- 3Ellipse, signe typographique composé de trois points, « … » :
- 4Ellipse, signe typographique composé de trois points, « … » :
- 5Ellipse, signe typographique composé de trois points, « … » :
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