cale porte
\kal pɔʁt\
The verdict
“cale porte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cale-porte · cale porte · French
cale porte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cale porte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal pɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cale porte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cale porte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kal pɔʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cale porte, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cale porte, spelled C-A-L-E- -P-O-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Objet 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.