pinkvspontTell them apart

Which to use

“pink” and “pont” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#13,864
“pink” frequency rank
#1,452
“pont” frequency rank
15316
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pink pont
Definition Pinque. Construction élevée d’un bord à l’autre d’une rivière, d’un ruisseau, d’un fossé pour permettre de les traverser.

Letter map: pink vs pont

Shared letters muted; letters that set pink and pont apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
pink
4 ch
pont

Corpus notes: pink and pont

pink and pont are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15316, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pink is recorded at frequency rank #13,864, classified as anoun. pont is at rank #1,452, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɔ̃\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 15316, this pair ranks #392,877 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of pink vs pont

Shared letters: np. Private to "pink": ik. Private to "pont": ot.

"pink" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "pont" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pinkipnk · pikn · pinkk · pinnk · pnik · ppink
  • pontopnt · pnot · ponnt · pontt · potn · ppont

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "pink" for "pont" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "pink" vs "pont" - which ranks higher?
"pont" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,452 in our French list, against #13,864 for "pink". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "pink" vs "pont" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "pink" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pont" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #392,877 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pink" and "pont" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pink vs pio". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #392,877 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list