punto
\ˈpun.to\
The verdict
“punto” is uncommon French (frequency #58,188 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,188
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Point.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punto · punto · French
punto · rank #58,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,188
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puantes
Nearest frequency peer: puantes (-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 « punto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prévalant
prévalant
41,816 corpus weight
- psychodrame
psychodrame
41,815 corpus weight
- puantes
puantes
41,814 corpus weight
- punto
punto
41,813 corpus weight
- pupitres
pupitres
41,812 corpus weight
- puritaine
puritaine
41,811 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « punto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpun.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « punto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
punto is uncommon French at frequency #58,188 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpun.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Point.".
punto has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is punto, spelled P-U-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1Point.
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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