pore

\pɔʁ\

/\pɔʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“pore” is uncommon French (frequency #69,316 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,316
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Ouverture imperceptible dans la peau de l’homme ou de l’animal, par où se fait la transpiration. Il n’est guère d’usage qu’au pluriel.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pore · pore · French

pore · rank #69,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,316
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH politologues

Nearest frequency peer: politologues (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “pore”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “pore” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 2, 2026
Key facts for pore
PropertyValue
Headwordpore
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#69,316
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pore” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). pore lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pore is uncommon French at frequency #69,316 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for pore in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 pore, spelled P-O-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ouverture imperceptible dans la peau de l’homme ou de l’animal, par où se fait la transpiration. Il n’est guère d’usage qu’au pluriel.
  2. 2
    Petits orifices, petites ouvertures analogues dans les végétaux. (→ voir plasmodesme)
  3. 3
    Interstices qui séparent les molécules d’un corps.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les observateurs comprendront alors que la Péchina, chez qui la passion sortait par tous les pores, réveillât en des natures perverses la fantaisie endormie par l’abus ; de même qu’à table l’eau vient à la bouche à l’aspect de ces fruits contournés, troués, tachés de noir que les gourmands connaissent pas expérience, et sous la peau desquels la nature se…
  2. (Sens figuré) Il sue l’hypocrisie par tous les pores.

This word in other languages

pore(English)poro(Español)Pore(Deutsch)

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pore"?
"pore" is spelled P-O-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʁ\.
What does "pore" mean?
As a noun, "pore" means: Ouverture imperceptible dans la peau de l’homme ou de l’animal, par où se fait la transpiration. Il n’est guère d’usage qu’au pluriel.
How do you pronounce "pore"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pore" is \pɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pore" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Rabe#69,348nori#69,273rash#69,359naso#69,261

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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list