porte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#284
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
porte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouverture battante dans un mur qui permet d’entrer ou sortir d’un endroit. Pronounced \pɔʁt\. It ranks #284 in French word frequency. Often confused with pré and pot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for porte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #284 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for porte, with forms such as "oprte", "poret", and "porrte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pré", "pot", "pose", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is porte, spelled P-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ouverture battante dans un mur qui permet d’entrer ou sortir d’un endroit.
- 2Élément qui ferme certains meubles ou certaines constructions servant à divers usages.
- 3Ouverture permettant le passage dans l’enceinte d'une ville ; accès à cette ville souvent fortifié et défendu dans une muraille.
- 4Tout passage d’un lieu ou d’une situation, à un autre.
- 5Espace entre deux piquets lors d’un slalom.
- 6Gorge ; défilé.
- 7Signal permettant de sélectionner les parties d’une onde au cours d’un ou plusieurs intervalles de temps.
- 8Sorte de petit anneau où l’on fait entrer le crochet d’une agrafe et qui sert à la retenir.
- 9Unité de base d’une fonction logique combinatoire.
- 10Lieu d’entrée ou de sortie d’un territoire.
- 11Territoire proche ; se rapporte à un événement proche de chez soi.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprte,poret,porrte,portte,potre,pporte,prote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for porte
Misspelling Variants of "porte"
Frequency rank: #284 in French
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Nearby French words
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