ponte
\pɔ̃t\
The verdict
“ponte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,831. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,831
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de pondre, pondaison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ponte · ponte · French
ponte · rank #18,831 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,831
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pointent
Nearest frequency peer: pointent (-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 « ponte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- piètre
piètre
81,173 corpus weight
- pleurant
pleurant
81,172 corpus weight
- pointent
pointent
81,171 corpus weight
- ponte
ponte
81,170 corpus weight
- poésies
poésies
81,168 corpus weight
- private
private
81,167 corpus weight
What this shows « ponte » 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 | ponte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ponte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ponte (IPA \pɔ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,831 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ponte, with forms such as "opnte", "pnote", and "ponet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pot", "pose", "port", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ponte, spelled P-O-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Action de pondre, pondaison.
- 2Action de produire, d’accoucher d’un travail difficile.
- 3Saison ou temps où les oiseaux pondent leurs œufs.
- 4Œufs pondus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ponte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les reproducteurs ont absolument besoin d’eau avant et pendant la ponte ; sans quoi la fécondation n’a pas lieu (et tous les œufs sont clairs).
Je partirai... je partirai pour des pontes blanche et immenses à même des banquises éclatées, je lâcherai au soleil de minuit des gros œufs par centaines offerts à tous les vents et les vents les charrieront plus au nord encore, là où des froids inusables conservent à jamais tous les corps ….
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opnte
- pnote
- ponet
- ponnte
- pontte
- potne
- pponte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ponte - 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 "ponte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).