porte cochère
\pɔʁ.tə kɔ.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“porte cochère” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Porte par laquelle les voitures peuvent passer pour entrer dans la cour d’une maison, d’un hôtel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porte cochère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tə kɔ.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “porte cochère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for porte cochère is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ.tə kɔ.ʃɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Porte par laquelle les voitures peuvent passer pour entrer dans la cour d’une maison, d’un hôtel.".
Zero misspellings are on record for porte cochère in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is porte cochère, spelled P-O-R-T-E- -C-O-C-H-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Porte par laquelle les voitures peuvent passer pour entrer dans la cour d’une maison, d’un hôtel.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “porte cochère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-R-T-E- -C-O-C-H-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔʁ.tə kɔ.ʃɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
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.