de porte en porte
The verdict
“de porte en porte” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - D'une maison à la suivante, et ainsi de suite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de porte en porte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de porte en porte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for de porte en porte is 17 letters long, classified as an adverb. 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: "D'une maison à la suivante, et ainsi de suite.".
No misspelling variants are generated for de porte en 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 de porte en porte, spelled D-E- -P-O-R-T-E- -E-N- -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
- 1D'une maison à la suivante, et ainsi de suite.
Synonyms
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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Using “de porte en porte”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E- -P-O-R-T-E- -E-N- -P-O-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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