porch
/pɔɹt͡ʃ/noun
porch is spelled P-O-R-C-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, porch means “A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of porch is porches.
How many letters and syllables are in porch?
| Letters | 5: P-O-R-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 porch?
Porch appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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).
How do you pronounce porch?
- UK /pɔːtʃ/
- US /pɔɹt͡ʃ/
- /po(ː)ɹtʃ/
Porch has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-porch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with porch?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as porch from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹtʃ/):
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 porch
- porches plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does porch mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.
- 2
A portico; a covered walk.
- 3
The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Porch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | porche, véranda, portique |
| German | Vorbau, Vordach, Veranda, Windfang, Vorraum |
| Portuguese | alpendre, pórtico, varanda |
| Spanish | pórtico, porche , soportal |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does porch come from?
From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).