porta
\pɔʁ.ta\
The verdict
“porta” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,722. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,722
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de porter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porta · porta · French
porta · rank #15,722 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,722
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Polynésie
Nearest frequency peer: Polynésie (-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 « porta »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plombs
plombs
84,282 corpus weight
- poire
poire
84,281 corpus weight
- Polynésie
Polynésie
84,280 corpus weight
- porta
porta
84,279 corpus weight
- porteuse
porteuse
84,278 corpus weight
- poussin
poussin
84,277 corpus weight
What this shows « porta » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | porta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « porta »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around porta (IPA \pɔʁ.ta\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,722 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de porter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for porta, with forms such as "oprta", "porat", and "porrta". 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, "pot", "Post", "pote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is porta, spelled P-O-R-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de porter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un inventaire minutieux fut dressé de tout ce qu’il possédait sur lui, on nota les pièces d’argent dans ses poches, on inscrivit le velours de son manteau, on porta mention des jabots de sa chemise, on le fit déchausser, déculotter, déchemiser, dénuder entièrement, une ordure entrouvrit l’orifice pour y chercher une pierre précieuse, Melchior lui aurait p…
Philéas Beauvisage, garçon sage et plein de respect pour sa mère, eut bientôt conclu l’affaire avec son patron ; et comme il tenait de ses parents la bosse que les phrénologistes appellent l’acquisivité, son ardeur de jeunesse se porta sur ce commerce qui lui parut magnifique et qu’il voulut agrandir par la spéculation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprta
- porat
- porrta
- portta
- potra
- pporta
- prota
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porta - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).