por
\ˈpɔr\
The verdict
“por” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,213) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,213
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-por · por · French
por · rank #15,213 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,213
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polluants
Nearest frequency peer: polluants (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « por »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- poings
poings
84,791 corpus weight
- polluants
polluants
84,789 corpus weight
- por
por
84,788 corpus weight
- possiblement
possiblement
84,787 corpus weight
- posts
posts
84,786 corpus weight
- poulets
poulets
84,785 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « por » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | por |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \ˈpɔr\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « por »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for por is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced \ˈpɔr\. Frequency #15,213 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for por, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. The correct French form is por, spelled P-O-R.
Definition
- 1Mais.
- 2Cependant, néanmoins, pourtant, tout de même, toutefois.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).