PortevspostsTell them apart

Quick tell: Porte is a name, posts is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Porte” is a name and “posts” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,548
“Porte” frequency rank
#2,265
“posts” frequency rank
26813
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Porte posts
Definition The Ottoman court; (hence), the government of the Ottoman empire. plural of post

Letter map: Porte vs posts

Shared letters muted; letters that set Porte and posts apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
Porte
5 ch
posts

Role in the sentence - Porte and posts

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Porte is aname and postsanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26813, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Porte is recorded at frequency rank #24,548, classified as aname. posts is at rank #2,265, tagged as anoun, pronounced /pəʊsts/.

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 26813, this pair ranks #383,879 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Porte vs posts

Shared letters: opt. Private to "Porte": er. Private to "posts": s.

"Porte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "posts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Porteoprte · poret · porrte · portte · potre · pporte · prote
  • postsopsts · possts · postss · postts · potss · pposts · psots

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Porte" for "posts" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Porte" is a name and "posts" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Porte" or "posts" show up more?
"posts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,265 in our English list, against #24,548 for "Porte". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "Porte" vs "posts" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Porte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "posts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #383,879 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Porte" and "posts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Porte vs pyrite". 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 #383,879 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