porte-clefs
\pɔʁ.tə.kle\
The verdict
“porte-clefs” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gardien de prison qui porte les clefs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-clefs · porte-clefs · French
porte-clefs · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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-clefs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tə.kle\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
porte-clefs is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tə.kle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
porte-clefs has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is porte-clefs, spelled P-O-R-T-E---C-L-E-F-S.
Definition
- 1Gardien de prison qui porte les clefs.
- 2Anneau ou étui pour porter les clefs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porte-clefs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce moment, le porte-clefs vint me prier de rentrer dans ma chambre.
Un porte-clefs entra et mit fin à ce récit lamentable : il apportait le souper des habitants de la troisième chambre.
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.