pointure
\pwɛ̃.tyʁ\
The verdict
“pointure” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,914. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,914
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dimension exprimée en point d’un objet quelconque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointure · pointure · French
pointure · rank #27,914 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,914
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pointue
Nearest frequency peer: pointue (-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 « pointure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- planquer
planquer
72,090 corpus weight
- pointue
pointue
72,088 corpus weight
- pointure
pointure
72,087 corpus weight
- pourvue
pourvue
72,086 corpus weight
- poussez
poussez
72,085 corpus weight
- prennes
prennes
72,084 corpus weight
What this shows « pointure » 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 | pointure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pointure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pointure (IPA \pwɛ̃.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,914 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pointure, with forms such as "opinture", "pionture", and "poinnture". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "posture", "pointus", "pointures", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 pointure, spelled P-O-I-N-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dimension exprimée en point d’un objet quelconque.
- 2Nombre qui indique la taille des chaussures, des gants, des chapeaux…
- 3Personne qui excelle dans une discipline.
- 4Pointe permettant la fixation et l'entraînement du papier sur un cylindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pointure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle essayait des gants de Saxe, par crainte que la pointure ne fût pas exacte.
— Soyez tranquille, monsieur Bergeret, j’ai votre pointure, et je sais que vous aimez à vous sentir à l’aise dans vos chaussures. Vous avez bien raison, monsieur Bergeret, de ne pas chercher à faire petit pied. — Mais j’ai le cou-de-pied assez haut et la plante du pied cambrée, objecta M. Bergeret.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opinture
- pionture
- poinnture
- pointrue
- pointture
- pointurre
- poinutre
- poitnure
- poniture
- ppointure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pointure - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).