pontifes
\pɔ̃.tif\
The verdict
“pontifes” is uncommon French (frequency #73,447 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,447
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pontife.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pontifes · pontifes · French
pontifes · rank #73,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,447
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pomona
Nearest frequency peer: Pomona (-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 « pontifes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poignantes
poignantes
26,557 corpus weight
- Pomona
Pomona
26,555 corpus weight
- pontifes
pontifes
26,554 corpus weight
- Pools
Pools
26,553 corpus weight
- popote
popote
26,552 corpus weight
- potages
potages
26,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pontifes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pontifes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pontifes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pontifes is uncommon French at frequency #73,447 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ̃.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pontife.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pontifes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 pontifes, spelled P-O-N-T-I-F-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pontife.
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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