partyingvsportingWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: partying is a verb, porting is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“partying” is a verb and “porting” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,241
“partying” frequency rank
#44,411
“porting” frequency rank
59652
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature partying porting
Definition present participle and gerund of party An opening through or into which fluid or other material can flow.

Letter map: partying vs porting

Shared letters muted; letters that set partying and porting apart highlighted. Shared run: 6.

8 ch
partying
7 ch
porting

Part-of-speech tell for partying / porting

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: partying is averb and portinganoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59652, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

partying is recorded at frequency rank #15,241, classified as averb. porting is at rank #44,411, tagged as anoun.

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 59652, this pair ranks #104,890 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of partying vs porting

Shared letters: ginprt. Private to "partying": ay. Private to "porting": o.

"partying" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCC  ·  "porting" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • partyingaprtying · parrtying · partiyng · parttying · partyign · partyingg · partyinng · partynig
  • portingoprting · poritng · porrting · portign · portingg · portinng · portnig · portting

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "partying" and "porting" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "partying" is a verb and "porting" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "partying" or "porting"?
"partying" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,241 in our English list, against #44,411 for "porting". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "partying" and "porting".

  • Full dictionary entry for "partying" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "porting" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #104,890 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "partying" and "porting" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "porting vs punting". 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 #104,890 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list