portaient
\pɔʁ.tɛ\
The verdict
“portaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,459
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de porter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portaient · portaient · French
portaient · rank #11,459 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,459
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Porsche
Nearest frequency peer: Porsche (-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 « portaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Perry
Perry
88,545 corpus weight
- pertinent
pertinent
88,544 corpus weight
- Porsche
Porsche
88,543 corpus weight
- portaient
portaient
88,542 corpus weight
- posés
posés
88,541 corpus weight
- procure
procure
88,540 corpus weight
What this shows « portaient » 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 | portaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around portaient (IPA \pɔʁ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,459 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de porter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for portaient, with forms such as "oprtaient", "poratient", and "porrtaient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "portant", "portent", "portait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is portaient, spelled P-O-R-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de porter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réfugiés dans les bois, ils survivaient parfois quelques saisons de la nourriture que leur portaient les femmes avant d’être « manchotés » (d’avoir le bras coupé) par les commandeurs.
Quoiqu’elle ne manquât ni de sens ni de perspicacité, les idées religieuses et son ignorance ayant enveloppé ses qualités dans un cercle d’airain, elles ne s’exercèrent que dans les choses les plus vulgaires de la vie ; puis, disséminées sur peu de points, elles se portaient tout entières sur l’affaire en train.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprtaient
- poratient
- porrtaient
- portaeint
- portaiennt
- portaientt
- portaietn
- portainet
- portiaent
- porttaient
- potraient
- pportaient
- protaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portaient - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).