portait

\pɔʁ.tɛ\

/\pɔʁ.tɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“portait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,362
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de porter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-portait · portait · French

portait · rank #4,362 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,362
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pollution

Nearest frequency peer: pollution (-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 « portait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « portait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

portait vs posait
71% similar
portait vs Portal
57% similar
portait vs priait
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for portait
PropertyValue
Headwordportait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pɔʁ.tɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,362
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).portaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pollution » (#4,361), « poulet » (#4,363), « permanente » (#4,360). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « portait » est au #4,362. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around portait (IPA \pɔʁ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,362 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de porter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for portait, with forms such as "oprtait", "poratit", and "portaitt". 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, "posait", "Portal", "priait", 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 portait, spelled P-O-R-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de porter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how portait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un valet écorchait l’animal et portait la peau à la « loge », la cahute des boucaniers.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oprtait
  • poratit
  • portaitt
  • portati
  • portiat
  • porttait
  • potrait
  • pportait
  • protait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

oprtait2poratit2portaitt1portati2portiat2porttait1potrait2pportait1
Edit distance from "portait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "portait"?
"portait" is spelled P-O-R-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʁ.tɛ\.
What does "portait" mean?
As a verb, "portait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de porter.
What words are commonly confused with "portait"?
"portait" is commonly confused with "posait", "Portal", "priait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "portait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "portait" is \pɔʁ.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "portait" come from?
"portait" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "portait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ouverts#4,359négatif#4,357restait#4,372serveur#4,378

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

misère9 variantsmentir9 variantsmaster9 variantsleçons9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list