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portaloo

noun

portaloo is spelled P-O-R-T-A-L-O-O: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, portaloo means “A portable toilet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of portaloo is portaloos.

How many letters and syllables are in portaloo?

Letters8: P-O-R-T-A-L-O-O
In writingabout once in every 58 million words; the 237,177th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is portaloo?

Portaloo appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).

Forms of portaloo

  • portaloos plural

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

What does portaloo mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    UKA portable toilet.

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

Where does portaloo come from?

From a trademark of Portakabin Ltd, based on portable and loo.

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

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