un point c’est tout

/\œ̃ pwɛ̃ s‿ɛ tu\/ phrase

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

un point c’est tout is aFrenchphrase. It means: Pour mettre un terme à une discussion, sur le ton impérieux. Pronounced \œ̃ pwɛ̃ s‿ɛ tu\.

Key facts for un point c’est tout
PropertyValue
Headwordun point c’est tout
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPhrase
IPA\œ̃ pwɛ̃ s‿ɛ tu\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

un point c’est tout is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for un point c’est tout is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ̃ pwɛ̃ s‿ɛ tu\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for un point c’est tout in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is un point c’est tout, spelled U-N- -P-O-I-N-T- -C-’-E-S-T- -T-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pour mettre un terme à une discussion, sur le ton impérieux.
  2. 2
    Pour montrer des limites : pas davantage, pas plus que cela.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "un point c’est tout"?
"un point c’est tout" is spelled U-N- -P-O-I-N-T- -C-’-E-S-T- -T-O-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \œ̃ pwɛ̃ s‿ɛ tu\.
What does "un point c’est tout" mean?
As a phrase, "un point c’est tout" means: Pour mettre un terme à une discussion, sur le ton impérieux.
How do you pronounce "un point c’est tout"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "un point c’est tout" is \œ̃ pwɛ̃ s‿ɛ tu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "un point c’est tout" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.