ponctuel
\pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“ponctuel” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,442
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est exact, régulier, qui fait à point nommé ce qu’il doit faire, ce qu’il a promis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ponctuel · ponctuel · French
ponctuel · rank #25,442 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,442
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polyvalente
Nearest frequency peer: polyvalente (-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 « ponctuel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- planchers
planchers
74,562 corpus weight
- polyvalente
polyvalente
74,560 corpus weight
- ponctuel
ponctuel
74,559 corpus weight
- ponctuelle
ponctuelle
74,558 corpus weight
- possédée
possédée
74,557 corpus weight
- posters
posters
74,556 corpus weight
What this shows « ponctuel » 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 | ponctuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ponctuel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ponctuel (IPA \pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,442 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ponctuel, with forms such as "opnctuel", "pnoctuel", and "pocntuel". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ponctuels", "ponctuelle", "ponctuelles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ponctuel, spelled P-O-N-C-T-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est exact, régulier, qui fait à point nommé ce qu’il doit faire, ce qu’il a promis.
- 2Relatif à un point.
- 3Peu fréquent, occasionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ponctuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a pas d'individu plus ponctuel.
Il est ponctuel à s’acquitter.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opnctuel
- pnoctuel
- pocntuel
- poncctuel
- poncteul
- poncttuel
- ponctuell
- ponctule
- poncutel
- ponnctuel
- pontcuel
- pponctuel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ponctuel - 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 "ponctuel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).