Français homophones
porter/portez/portée/portées/portés
"porter" (#883 written frequency) beats "portez" (#11,638) in this 5-word /\pɔʁ.te\/ cluster. Size rank #101 of 9,139 French groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 5 spellings keep the same /\pɔʁ.te\/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "porter" leads at #883, with "portez" trailing at #11,638.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Single-letter fork: "porter" keeps r, "portez" writes z at letter 6.
- Shared stem "port" then splits - "porter" (6 letters) vs "portée" (6).
- Shared stem "port" then splits - "porter" (6 letters) vs "portées" (7).
- Shared stem "port" then splits - "porter" (6 letters) vs "portés" (6).
- Shared stem "port" then splits - "portez" (6 letters) vs "portée" (6).
- Shared stem "port" then splits - "portez" (6 letters) vs "portées" (7).
- Shared stem "port" then splits - "portez" (6 letters) vs "portés" (6).
- Shared stem "portée" then splits - "portée" (6 letters) vs "portées" (7).
- Single-letter fork: "portée" keeps e, "portés" writes s at letter 6.
- Shared stem "porté" then splits - "portées" (7 letters) vs "portés" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across porter, portez, portée, portées, portés: oprt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
porter
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory eoprt · private e
portez
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory eoprtz · private ez
portée
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVV
Inventory eoprté · private eé
portées
7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVVC
Inventory eoprsté · private esé
portés
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory oprsté · private sé
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "porter" when you mean: Soutenir quelque chose ou quelqu’un.
- Write "portez" when you mean: Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de porter.
- Write "portée" when you mean: Totalité des petits que les femelles des vivipares portent et mettent bas en une fois.
- Write "portées" when you mean: Féminin pluriel de porté.
- Write "portés" when you mean: Pluriel de porté.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
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