purport
/pɚˈpɔɹt/verb, noun
purport is spelled P-U-R-P-O-R-T. The wrong spelling people search most is proport: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Purport is a verb meaning “To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately)”.
How many letters and syllables are in purport?
| Letters | 7: P-U-R-P-O-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 44,767th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, proport, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell purport?
Purport is spelled P-U-R-P-O-R-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for purport in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is purport?
Purport appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce purport?
- UK /pəˈpɔːt/
- US /pɚˈpɔɹt/
As a noun (“Import, an intention or purpose”): /ˈpɜːpɔːt/, /ˈpɜːpət/, /ˈpɚpɔɹt/.
Purport has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-purport.wav, En-au-purport.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with purport?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as purport from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of purport
- purports present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- purporting participle, present
- purported participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does purport mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately).
He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
- 2
To intend.
He purported to become an international man of affairs.
noun
- 1
Import, an intention or purpose.
- 2
obsoleteA disguise; a covering.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Purport in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prétendre , avoir l'intention (de) |
| German | vorgeben, unterstellen , beabsichtigen |
| Portuguese | pretender, dizer, supor , propósito |
| Spanish | implicar, profesar, expresar, afirmar , pretender, intencionar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does purport come from?
From Middle English purporten, from Anglo-Norman purporter and Old French porporter (“convey, contain, carry”), from pur-, from Latin pro (“forth”) + Old French porter (“carry”), from Latin portō (“carry”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).