portables
\pɔʁ.tabl\
The verdict
“portables” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,599. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,599
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de portable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portables · portables · French
portables · rank #8,599 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,599
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plonger
Nearest frequency peer: plonger (-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 « portables »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pie
pie
91,405 corpus weight
- pistolet
pistolet
91,404 corpus weight
- plonger
plonger
91,403 corpus weight
- portables
portables
91,402 corpus weight
- possédait
possédait
91,401 corpus weight
- pourvoir
pourvoir
91,400 corpus weight
What this shows « portables » 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 | portables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portables »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around portables (IPA \pɔʁ.tabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,599 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de portable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for portables, with forms such as "oprtables", "poratbles", and "porrtables". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "potable", "postales", "portails", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is portables, spelled P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de portable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how portables appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les policiers lyonnais entreprirent une vaste enquête nationale sur les détenteurs de scies circulaires portables, tandis que Bouclard reprenait plus sagement les éléments communs aux crimes précédents.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprtables
- poratbles
- porrtables
- portabbles
- portabels
- portabless
- portablles
- portablse
- portalbes
- portbales
- porttables
- potrables
- pportables
- protables
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portables - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).