Portes
"portes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Portes” is uncommon English (frequency #76,230 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,230
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Catalan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-portes · Portes · English
Portes · rank #76,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,230
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH polytheistic
Nearest frequency peer: polytheistic (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Portes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Pokhara
Pokhara
23,775 corpus weight
- polytheistic
polytheistic
23,772 corpus weight
- Portes
Portes
23,771 corpus weight
- postmoderni…
postmodernist
23,770 corpus weight
- potentiality
potentiality
23,769 corpus weight
- Prato
Prato
23,767 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Portes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Portes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Portes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Portes is uncommon English at frequency #76,230 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Catalan.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Portes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Catalan Portes, from portes, plural of porta (“door”). The correct English form is Portes, spelled P-O-R-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1A surname from Catalan.
Etymology
Borrowed from Catalan Portes, from portes, plural of porta (“door”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).