porche

\pɔʁʃ\

/\pɔʁʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“porche” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,109. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,109
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portique, lieu couvert à l’entrée d’un temple, d’une église, ou même d’un palais.

Corpus desk

Index FR-porche · porche · French

porche · rank #19,109 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,109
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pli

Nearest frequency peer: pli (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « porche »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « porche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

porche vs porte
67% similar
porche vs pouce
67% similar
porche vs porcs
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for porche
PropertyValue
Headwordporche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔʁʃ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#19,109
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « porche »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).porchese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pli » (#19,108), « portique » (#19,110), « pleurent » (#19,107). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « porche » est au #19,109. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around porche (IPA \pɔʁʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,109 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for porche, with forms such as "oprche", "pocrhe", and "porcche". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "porte", "pouce", "porcs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is porche, spelled P-O-R-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Portique, lieu couvert à l’entrée d’un temple, d’une église, ou même d’un palais.
  2. 2
    Construction abritant une porte d'entrée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how porche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un soir, sous le porche de Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné, qui est garni de bancs de pierre, elle m’apprit ce que je ne savais pas encore et qu’elle savait depuis longtemps.
  2. Des porches cintrés s'exhale parfois une odeur enivrante; […], et l'on surprend souvent dans l'air, le puissant arôme des distillations qui s'opèrent.

This word in other languages

porch(English)porche(Español)Vorhalle(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oprche
  • pocrhe
  • porcche
  • porceh
  • porchhe
  • porhce
  • porrche
  • pporche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porche - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

oprche2pocrhe2porcche1porceh2porchhe1porhce2porrche1pporche1
Edit distance from "porche"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "porche"?
"porche" is spelled P-O-R-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʁʃ\.
What does "porche" mean?
As a noun, "porche" means: Portique, lieu couvert à l’entrée d’un temple, d’une église, ou même d’un palais.
What words are commonly confused with "porche"?
"porche" is commonly confused with "porte", "pouce", "porcs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "porche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "porche" is \pɔʁʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "porche" come from?
"porche" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "porche", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pretty#19,112piéger#19,105piller#19,103pharma#19,101

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

puiser8 variantsPamela8 variantsorteil8 variantsRihanna8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list