porter's lodge
"porter-s-lodge" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“porter's lodge” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A building for the porter(s) near the gate of a castle, college, etc., (historical) formerly used as a place of punishment for the staff.
Corpus desk
Index EN-porter-s-lodge · porter's lodge · English
porter's lodge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porter's lodge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “porter's lodge” in English
Rare enough to double-check
porter's lodge is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for porter's lodge, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is porter's lodge, spelled P-O-R-T-E-R-'-S- -L-O-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1A building for the porter(s) near the gate of a castle, college, etc., (historical) formerly used as a place of punishment for the staff.
- 2An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a mailroom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porter's lodge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The keys... were on Saturday stolen from the porter's lodge.
[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.