pontons
\pɔ̃.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“pontons” is uncommon French (frequency #51,053 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,053
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ponton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pontons · pontons · French
pontons · rank #51,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,053
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ponctuées
Nearest frequency peer: ponctuées (-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 « pontons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plumer
plumer
48,951 corpus weight
- pollueur
pollueur
48,950 corpus weight
- ponctuées
ponctuées
48,949 corpus weight
- pontons
pontons
48,948 corpus weight
- porcher
porcher
48,947 corpus weight
- portabilité
portabilité
48,946 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pontons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pontons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pontons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pontons is uncommon French at frequency #51,053 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ̃.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ponton.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pontons in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pontons, spelled P-O-N-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ponton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pontons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pontons sont flottants, le bambou flexible et les planches disjointes laissent entrapparaître l’eau sale de la ville.
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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