ponctuels
\pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“ponctuels” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,310. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,310
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de ponctuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ponctuels · ponctuels · French
ponctuels · rank #30,310 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,310
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ponce
Nearest frequency peer: ponce (-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 « ponctuels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plaidoirie
plaidoirie
69,694 corpus weight
- pollué
pollué
69,693 corpus weight
- ponce
ponce
69,692 corpus weight
- ponctuels
ponctuels
69,691 corpus weight
- pondu
pondu
69,690 corpus weight
- portfolio
portfolio
69,689 corpus weight
What this shows « ponctuels » 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 | ponctuels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ponctuels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ponctuels (IPA \pɔ̃k.tɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,310 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de ponctuel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ponctuels, with forms such as "opnctuels", "pnoctuels", and "pocntuels". 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, "ponctué", "ponctuel", "ponctuée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ponctuels, spelled P-O-N-C-T-U-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de ponctuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ponctuels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au petit matin, les permanents du secteur non alimentaire s’installent avant les marchands ponctuels ; Marc Assouline et Nathalie Guillon font partie de la soixantaine de vendeurs permanents du marché ; Noëlle Navarrete est placière au marché de Rochefort depuis 2017 ; Yann Lannemajou encaisse les marchands non-permanents.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opnctuels
- pnoctuels
- pocntuels
- poncctuels
- poncteuls
- poncttuels
- ponctuells
- ponctuelss
- ponctuesl
- ponctules
- poncutels
- ponnctuels
- pontcuels
- pponctuels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ponctuels - 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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