porte-conteneurs
The verdict
“porte-conteneurs” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante, dans l'orthographe traditionnelle, de porte-conteneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-conteneurs · porte-conteneurs · French
porte-conteneurs · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 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-conteneurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porte-conteneurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porte-conteneurs is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante, dans l'orthographe traditionnelle, de porte-conteneur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for porte-conteneurs, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is porte-conteneurs, spelled P-O-R-T-E---C-O-N-T-E-N-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Variante, dans l'orthographe traditionnelle, de porte-conteneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porte-conteneurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon un expert allemand reconnu, Axel Friedrich, un gros porte-conteneurs dégage autant de particules fines que 1 million de voitures.
Des années de métier avaient fait de lui cette âme sceptique mais compatissante qui battait présentement la semelle du côté du terminal à grain de la jetée 86 pour surveiller, à une distance qui lui semblait sûre, son client – […] – qui se tenait au pied d'un porte-conteneurs lège en provenance de Chine jusqu'au moment où le colis lui chut dans les bras d…
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