porting
"porting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“porting” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #44,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,411
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An opening through or into which fluid or other material can flow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-porting · porting · English
porting · rank #44,411 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,411
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH policymaking
Nearest frequency peer: policymaking (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “porting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- PJs
PJs
55,593 corpus weight
- policymaking
policymaking
55,591 corpus weight
- porting
porting
55,590 corpus weight
- postnatal
postnatal
55,589 corpus weight
- powertrain
powertrain
55,588 corpus weight
- predefined
predefined
55,587 corpus weight
What this shows “porting” 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 | porting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “porting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around porting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,411 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An opening through or into which fluid or other material can flow.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for porting, with forms such as "oprting", "poritng", and "porrting". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "posing", "prying", "putting", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 porting, spelled P-O-R-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An opening through or into which fluid or other material can flow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] portings distributed radially about the housing bore. It then is necessary only to arrange six equally spaced portings at the outside diameter of the control sleeve which rotates within the housing, and to size these portings […]
[…] portings in said tracer valve to said cylinder inlet port in said servo valve unit for actuating said servo valve member from said set position to control fluid flow through said inlet and outlet portings in said servo valve unit […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprting
- poritng
- porrting
- portign
- portingg
- portinng
- portnig
- portting
- potring
- pporting
- proting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porting - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "porting", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).