# porch

> English word · Noun · IPA /pɔːtʃ/ · frequency rank #8,970

## Definitions
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.
2. A portico; a covered walk.
3. The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.

## Etymology
From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus.

## Easily confused with
- **PRC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-prc)
- **port** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-port)
- **porn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-porn)
- **pork** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-pork)
- **posh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-posh)
- **pore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-pore)
- **punch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-punch)
- **ports** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-ports)
- **Porto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-porto)
- **psych** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-psych)
- **pouch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-pouch)
- **pores** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-pores)
- **porno** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-porno)
- **Porte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-porte)
- **porta** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-porta)
- **porky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-porky)
- **Porsche** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porch-vs-porsche)
- **POC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poc-vs-porch)
- **Pooh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pooh-vs-porch)
- **pitch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pitch-vs-porch)

## Common misspellings (8)
`oprch`, `pocrh`, `porcch`, `porchh`, `porhc`, `porrch`, `pporch`, `proch`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/porch