pontus
\ˈpon.tus\
The verdict
“pontus” is uncommon French (frequency #87,028 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,028
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pontus · pontus · French
pontus · rank #87,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,028
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ponchos
Nearest frequency peer: ponchos (-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 « pontus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poivrot
poivrot
12,976 corpus weight
- ponchos
ponchos
12,974 corpus weight
- pontus
pontus
12,973 corpus weight
- populaireme…
populairement
12,972 corpus weight
- populeuse
populeuse
12,971 corpus weight
- porco
porco
12,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pontus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pontus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpon.tus\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pontus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pontus is uncommon French at frequency #87,028 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpon.tus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pontus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pontus, spelled P-O-N-T-U-S.
Definition
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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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