portance
\pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“portance” is uncommon French (frequency #55,516 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,516
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “portance” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
portance is uncommon French at frequency #55,516 among 248,534 “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.
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.
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Using “portance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.