porta
Spanish, noun
porta is spelled P-O-R-T-A (5 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 10,627th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Porta is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “porthole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of portar. With an accent, portá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of portar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cada una de las aberturas, a modo de ventanas, que se practican en los costados y en la popa de los buques…”.
What does porta mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineporthole
- 2
feminineobsoleteobsolete spelling of puerta
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of portar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cada una de las aberturas, a modo de ventanas, que se practican en los costados y en la popa de los buques, para dar luz y ventilación al interior de los mismos, para verificar su carga y descarga y muy principalmente para el juego de la artillería. 2. Mandilete.
prefix: 1. Que lleva (a).
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of porta
- portas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to porta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is porta in Spanish?
porta appears 5.9 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).