port
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,169
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
port is aFrenchnoun. It means: Havre côtier, refuge ou abri pour les bateaux les protégeant des vents et des tempêtes. Pronounced \pɔʁ\. It ranks #1,169 in French word frequency. Often confused with Pr and Pt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | port |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for port is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,169 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for port, with forms such as "oprt", "porrt", and "portt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pr", "Pt", "pro", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is port, spelled P-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Havre côtier, refuge ou abri pour les bateaux les protégeant des vents et des tempêtes.
- 2Havre côtier, refuge ou abri pour les bateaux les protégeant des vents et des tempêtes.
- 3Ensemble des installations, en bord de mer, destinées à l’entretien des navires, à l’embarquement et au débarquement des marchandises ou des passagers.
- 4Point de la rive d’un cours d’eau où les navires abordent, chargent et déchargent les marchandises.
- 5Ville bâtie auprès d’un port, autour d’un port.
- 6Lieu de repos, de refuge, d’une situation tranquille.
- 7Lieu où l’on se retire loin des embarras du monde, où l’on cherche à se mettre à couvert de quelque danger.
- 8Col des Pyrénées.
- 9Arrivée, destination.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprt,porrt,portt,potr,pport
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for port
Misspelling Variants of "port"
Frequency rank: #1,169 in French
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