ponctuent
\pɔ̃k.ty\
The verdict
“ponctuent” is uncommon French (frequency #54,169 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,169
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ponctuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ponctuent · ponctuent · French
ponctuent · rank #54,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,169
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polyphonie
Nearest frequency peer: polyphonie (-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 « ponctuent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pollard
pollard
45,835 corpus weight
- polygame
polygame
45,834 corpus weight
- polyphonie
polyphonie
45,833 corpus weight
- ponctuent
ponctuent
45,832 corpus weight
- ponctués
ponctués
45,831 corpus weight
- Ponzi
Ponzi
45,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ponctuent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ponctuent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ̃k.ty\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ponctuent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ponctuent is uncommon French at frequency #54,169 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔ̃k.ty\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ponctuent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ponctuent, spelled P-O-N-C-T-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ponctuer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ponctuer.
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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