cale porte

\kal pɔʁt\

/\kal pɔʁt\/ noun

The verdict

“cale porte” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Objet destiné à être posé au sol contre une porte afin d'éviter qu'elle bouge, à cause des courants d'air ou d'un ferme-porte.

Key facts for cale porte
PropertyValue
Headwordcale porte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kal pɔʁt\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cale porte” sits in French frequency

cale porte falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cale porte is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal pɔʁt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Objet destiné à être posé au sol contre une porte afin d'éviter qu'elle bouge, à cause des courants d'air ou d'un ferme-porte.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cale porte in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 French form is cale porte, spelled C-A-L-E- -P-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objet destiné à être posé au sol contre une porte afin d'éviter qu'elle bouge, à cause des courants d'air ou d'un ferme-porte.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cale porte"?
"cale porte" is spelled C-A-L-E- -P-O-R-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kal pɔʁt\.
What does "cale porte" mean?
As a noun, "cale porte" means: Objet destiné à être posé au sol contre une porte afin d'éviter qu'elle bouge, à cause des courants d'air ou d'un ferme-porte.
How do you pronounce "cale porte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cale porte" is \kal pɔʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cale porte" come from?
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Using “cale porte”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-L-E- -P-O-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kal pɔʁt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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