portland
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "portland", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "portland" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "portland" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
Portland is aEnglishname. It means: The largest city in Oregon, United States and the county seat of Multnomah County; named for the city in Maine. Pronounced /ˈpɔːtlənd/. It ranks #5,348 in English word frequency. Often confused with Portman and Poland.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Portland |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | /ˈpɔːtlənd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Portland is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɔːtlənd/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,348 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 33 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Portland, with forms such as "oprtland", "porltand", and "porrtland". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Portman", "Poland", "parkland", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English Portland, equivalent to port + land. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Portland, spelled P-O-R-T-L-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The largest city in Oregon, United States and the county seat of Multnomah County; named for the city in Maine.
- 2The largest city in Maine, United States and the county seat of Cumberland County; named for the Isle of Portland.
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- 26A civil parish with a town council on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England, a tied island in the English Channel.
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- 29A community in Rideau Lakes township, Ontario, Canada; named for the 3rd Duke of Portland.
- 30A townland in County Tipperary, Ireland.
- 31A parish of Jamaica.
- 32A locality near Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand; named for the local Portland cement industry.
- 33A sea area between the Isle of Portland and the coast of France.
Etymology
From Old English Portland, equivalent to port + land.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprtland,porltand,porrtland,portalnd,portladn,portlandd,portlannd,portlland,portlnad,porttland,potrland,pportland,protland
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Portland
Misspelling Variants of "Portland"
Frequency rank: #5,348 in English
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