portages
\pɔʁ.taʒ\
The verdict
“portages” is uncommon French (frequency #65,424 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,424
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de portage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portages · portages · French
portages · rank #65,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pompent
Nearest frequency peer: pompent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « portages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polygames
polygames
34,580 corpus weight
- polynésienne
polynésienne
34,579 corpus weight
- pompent
pompent
34,578 corpus weight
- portages
portages
34,577 corpus weight
- poseurs
poseurs
34,576 corpus weight
- potentialité
potentialité
34,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « portages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « portages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
portages is uncommon French at frequency #65,424 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de portage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for portages, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is portages, spelled P-O-R-T-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de portage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how portages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais son canot ne traîne à l’arrière; il suit celui du guide et ne se laisse pas dépasser dans les portages.
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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