portance
\pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“portance” is uncommon French (frequency #55,516 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,516
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composante de la force subie par un corps en mouvement dans un fluide qui s’exerce perpendiculairement à la direction du mouvement et contrairement à la gravité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portance · portance · French
portance · rank #55,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,516
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH porterais
Nearest frequency peer: porterais (+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 « portance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pliées
pliées
44,489 corpus weight
- PNF
PNF
44,488 corpus weight
- portance
portance
44,485 corpus weight
- porterais
porterais
44,484 corpus weight
- pound
pound
44,483 corpus weight
- pourvoyeurs
pourvoyeurs
44,481 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « portance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « portance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
portance is uncommon French at frequency #55,516 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composante de la force subie par un corps en mouvement dans un fluide qui s’exerce perpendiculairement à la direction du mouvement et contrairement à la gravité.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for portance, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is portance, spelled P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Composante de la force subie par un corps en mouvement dans un fluide qui s’exerce perpendiculairement à la direction du mouvement et contrairement à la gravité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La portance est ce qui permet à un avion de voler.
Mais, dans le cas d’un tel décrochage bas, l’avion, en tombant, reprend de la vitesse et retrouve sa portance.
This word in other languages
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 "portance"?
What does "portance" mean?
How do you pronounce "portance"?
What language does "portance" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "portance", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).