portico
/ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/
"portico" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“portico” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,965. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,965
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
Corpus desk
Index EN-portico · portico · English
portico · rank #39,965 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,965
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH powerlifting
Nearest frequency peer: powerlifting (+2 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “portico”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- planetarium
planetarium
60,040 corpus weight
- portico
portico
60,036 corpus weight
- powerlifting
powerlifting
60,034 corpus weight
- ppd
ppd
60,033 corpus weight
- Pravda
Pravda
60,032 corpus weight
- premarital
premarital
60,031 corpus weight
What this shows “portico” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portico |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “portico”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around portico (IPA /ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,965 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for portico, with forms such as "oprtico", "poritco", and "porrtico". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Porto", "portion", "porting", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch”), from porta (“gate”). Doublet of porch, portego, and porticus. The correct English form is portico, spelled P-O-R-T-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The amphitheatre hath two portici as that at Niſmes.
The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.
Etymology
From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch”), from porta (“gate”). Doublet of porch, portego, and porticus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprtico
- poritco
- porrtico
- portcio
- porticco
- portioc
- porttico
- potrico
- pportico
- protico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portico - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).