ouvrir ses portes
The verdict
“ouvrir ses portes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ouvrir pour la première fois un lieu, un service.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrir ses portes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁiʁ se pɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ouvrir ses portes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ouvrir ses portes is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \u.vʁiʁ se 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: "Ouvrir pour la première fois un lieu, un service.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ouvrir ses portes 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 ouvrir ses portes, spelled O-U-V-R-I-R- -S-E-S- -P-O-R-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ouvrir pour la première fois un lieu, un service.
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Using “ouvrir ses portes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-U-V-R-I-R- -S-E-S- -P-O-R-T-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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