porte-clef
\pɔʁ.tə.kle\
The verdict
“porte-clef” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de porte-clés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-clef · porte-clef · French
porte-clef · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porte-clef |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tə.kle\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
porte-clef is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tə.kle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de porte-clés.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for porte-clef, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is porte-clef, spelled P-O-R-T-E---C-L-E-F.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de porte-clés.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.