pourpoint
\puʁ.pwɛ̃\
The verdict
“pourpoint” is uncommon French (frequency #78,745 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,745
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Justaucorps, chemise ou habit d’étoffe piquée qui couvrait le corps du cou jusqu’à la ceinture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourpoint · pourpoint · French
pourpoint · rank #78,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,745
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postmodernisme
Nearest frequency peer: postmodernisme (-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 « pourpoint »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pinacothèque
pinacothèque
21,260 corpus weight
- poa
poa
21,259 corpus weight
- polarise
polarise
21,258 corpus weight
- postmoderni…
postmodernisme
21,257 corpus weight
- pourpoint
pourpoint
21,256 corpus weight
- pozzi
pozzi
21,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pourpoint » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourpoint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \puʁ.pwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pourpoint » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pourpoint is uncommon French at frequency #78,745 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \puʁ.pwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pourpoint, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pourpoint, spelled P-O-U-R-P-O-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Justaucorps, chemise ou habit d’étoffe piquée qui couvrait le corps du cou jusqu’à la ceinture.
- 2Justaucorps, chemise ou habit d’étoffe piquée qui couvrait le corps du cou jusqu’à la ceinture.
- 3Justaucorps, chemise ou habit d’étoffe piquée qui couvrait le corps du cou jusqu’à la ceinture.
- 4Morceau d’un lapin, d’un lièvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourpoint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Philandre : Ce blasphème à tout autre aurait coûté la vie. - Tircis : Nous tomberons d’accord sans nous mettre en pourpoint. C’est-à-dire sans nous mettre en chemise pour nous battre
Il portait un élégant pourpoint garni de zibeline, un haut-de-chausses très-ample et des souliers fendus dans toute leur longueur.
This word in other languages
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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