pointures
\pwɛ̃.tyʁ\
The verdict
“pointures” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,462
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pointure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pointures · pointures · French
pointures · rank #39,462 · 13 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,462
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poilue
Nearest frequency peer: poilue (-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 « pointures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pincettes
pincettes
60,542 corpus weight
- pirouette
pirouette
60,541 corpus weight
- poilue
poilue
60,540 corpus weight
- pointures
pointures
60,539 corpus weight
- polichinelle
polichinelle
60,538 corpus weight
- poussaient
poussaient
60,537 corpus weight
What this shows « pointures » 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 | pointures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pointures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around pointures (IPA \pwɛ̃.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,462 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pointure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pointures, with forms such as "opintures", "piontures", and "poinntures". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "pointus", "postures", "pointes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 pointures, spelled P-O-I-N-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pointure.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opintures
- piontures
- poinntures
- pointrues
- pointtures
- pointuers
- pointuress
- pointurres
- pointurse
- poinutres
- poitnures
- ponitures
- ppointures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pointures - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pointures", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).