portable
French, noun/pɔʁ.tabl/
portable is spelled P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E (8 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written French, the 2,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Portable is a French masculine noun meaning “ellipsis of téléphone portable: mobile phone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Téléphone portable ; téléphone cellulaire”.
What does portable mean in English?
adjective
- 1
portable
noun
- 1
masculineellipsis of téléphone portable: mobile phone
- 2
masculineellipsis of ordinateur portable: laptop
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que l’on peut porter et déplacer facilement. 2. Que l’on peut porter en parlant d’un vêtement. 3. Qui ne nécessite aucune adaptation (ou qui est facilement adaptable) pour être utilisé dans un autre contexte (autre ordinateur, autre système d’exploitation…), en parlant d’un logiciel.
noun: 1. Téléphone portable ; téléphone cellulaire. 2. Ordinateur portable.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of portable
- portables plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce portable?
- /pɔʁ.tabl/
- \pɔʁ.tabl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to portable
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is portable in French?
portable appears 32 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).