portero
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,717
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
portero is aSpanishnoun. It means: Encargado de vigilar y mantener en buen estado la entrada de un edificio. Pronounced [poɾˈt̪eɾo]. It ranks #6,717 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with porto and potro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poɾˈt̪eɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for portero is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poɾˈt̪eɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,717 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for portero, with forms such as "oprtero", "poretro", and "porrtero". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "porto", "potro", "potter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is portero, spelled P-O-R-T-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Encargado de vigilar y mantener en buen estado la entrada de un edificio.
- 2Por extensión, personal de limpieza y mantenimiento en las instituciones públicas y privadas
- 3Jugador que, en algunos deportes como el fútbol, está encargado de evitar que los rivales conviertan gol, aplicándosele reglas especiales
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprtero,poretro,porrtero,porteor,porterro,portreo,porttero,pportero,protero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for portero
Misspelling Variants of "portero"
Frequency rank: #6,717 in Spanish
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