pontier
\pɔ̃.tje\
The verdict
“pontier” is uncommon French (frequency #84,182 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,182
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui dont le métier consiste à manœuvrer un pont roulant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pontier · pontier · French
pontier · rank #84,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,182
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ponctuations
Nearest frequency peer: ponctuations (-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 « pontier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ploemeur
Ploemeur
15,824 corpus weight
- poitevins
poitevins
15,821 corpus weight
- ponctuations
ponctuations
15,820 corpus weight
- pontier
pontier
15,819 corpus weight
- poularde
poularde
15,817 corpus weight
- practical
practical
15,815 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pontier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pontier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pontier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pontier is uncommon French at frequency #84,182 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ̃.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pontier, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 pontier, spelled P-O-N-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui dont le métier consiste à manœuvrer un pont roulant.
- 2Celui dont le métier consiste à manœuvrer un pont mobile (tournant, levant ou basculant).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pontier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le métier de pontier ou pontière consiste à conduire un pont roulant. Un pont roulant est un engin de manutention mécanisé permettant le levage et le transport de lourdes charges.
La ville de Paris a fait construire en 1885 par la compagnie de Fives-Lille un pont levant sur le bassin de la Villette. Quand un bateau demande le passage, le pontier ferme le pont par une chaîne sur chacune des rives, se place sur la rive gauche pour faire la manœuvre, puis enlève les chaînes en commençant par celle de cette rive.
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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