ponctuations
\pɔ̃k.tɥa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ponctuations” is uncommon French (frequency #84,181 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,181
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ponctuation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ponctuations · ponctuations · French
ponctuations · rank #84,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,181
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poitevins
Nearest frequency peer: poitevins (-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 « ponctuations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plano
plano
15,825 corpus weight
- Ploemeur
Ploemeur
15,824 corpus weight
- poitevins
poitevins
15,821 corpus weight
- ponctuations
ponctuations
15,820 corpus weight
- pontier
pontier
15,819 corpus weight
- poularde
poularde
15,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ponctuations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ponctuations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃k.tɥa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #84,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ponctuations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ponctuations is uncommon French at frequency #84,181 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ̃k.tɥa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ponctuation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ponctuations in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ponctuations, spelled P-O-N-C-T-U-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ponctuation.
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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