ponctuelle
\pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“ponctuelle” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,443. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,443
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de ponctuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ponctuelle · ponctuelle · French
ponctuelle · rank #25,443 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,443
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ponctuel
Nearest frequency peer: ponctuel (-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 « ponctuelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- prendrons
prendrons
74,555 corpus weight
What this shows « ponctuelle » 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 | ponctuelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #25,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ponctuelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ponctuelle (IPA \pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,443 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de ponctuel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ponctuelle, with forms such as "opnctuelle", "pnoctuelle", and "pocntuelle". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ponctuels", "ponctuelles", "ponctuel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 ponctuelle, spelled P-O-N-C-T-U-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de ponctuel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opnctuelle
- pnoctuelle
- pocntuelle
- poncctuelle
- poncteulle
- poncttuelle
- ponctuele
- ponctuelel
- ponctulele
- poncutelle
- ponnctuelle
- pontcuelle
- pponctuelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ponctuelle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).