ponctué
The verdict
“ponctué” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,476
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualifie des animaux et des végétaux qui sont parsemés de taches en forme de points.
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 | ponctué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ponctué” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ponctué, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,476 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ponctué, with forms such as "opnctué", "pnoctué", and "pocntué". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "ponte", "ponctuel", "ponctuée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ponctué, spelled P-O-N-C-T-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qualifie des animaux et des végétaux qui sont parsemés de taches en forme de points.
- 2Qualifie une ligne, un trait formés d’une suite de points.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opnctué
- pnoctué
- pocntué
- poncctué
- poncttué
- ponctue
- ponctéu
- poncuté
- ponnctué
- pontcué
- pponctué
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ponctué - 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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Using “ponctué”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-N-C-T-U-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ponte” - see the side-by-side comparison. ponctué vs ponte
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.