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poort

noun

poort is spelled P-O-O-R-T: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, poort means “A mountain pass” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of poort is poorts.

How many letters and syllables are in poort?

Letters5: P-O-O-R-T
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is poort?

Poort appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with poort?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as poort.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: troop, porto, proto, tropo.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of poort

  • poorts plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does poort mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A mountain pass.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does poort come from?

Borrowed from Afrikaans poort (“gate”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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