# Porte

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #24,548

## Definitions
1. The Ottoman court; (hence), the government of the Ottoman empire.

## Etymology
From Middle French porte (“gate”), ultimately after Ottoman Turkish باب عالی (Bâb-ı Âli, “Exalted Gate”), from Arabic بَاب (bāb, “gate”) and عَالِيّ (ʕāliyy, “high, exalted”), a synecdoche for the Ottoman government originally referring to the outer gate of the sultan's Topkapı palace at which justice was administered, and later to the gate of the palace of the grand vizier.

## Easily confused with
- **pot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-pot)
- **post** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-post)
- **pure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-pure)
- **pose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-pose)
- **pots** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-pots)
- **pout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-pout)
- **pyre** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-pyre)
- **posts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-posts)
- **ports** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-ports)
- **purse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-purse)
- **purge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-purge)
- **Porto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-porto)
- **potty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-potty)
- **posse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-posse)
- **posted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-posted)
- **poster** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-poster)
- **potter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-potter)
- **porter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-porter)
- **ported** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-ported)
- **potted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porte-vs-potted)

## Common misspellings (7)
`oprte`, `poret`, `porrte`, `portte`, `potre`, `pporte`, `prote`

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