porte-documents
\pɔʁt.dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“porte-documents” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite valise rectangulaire en cuir ou en plastique généralement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-documents · porte-documents · French
porte-documents · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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-documents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁt.dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
porte-documents is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁt.dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite valise rectangulaire en cuir ou en plastique généralement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for porte-documents, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is porte-documents, spelled P-O-R-T-E---D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Petite valise rectangulaire en cuir ou en plastique généralement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porte-documents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Qui ça ? s’étonna Long, levant les yeux des papiers qu’il venait de sortir d’un porte-documents fatigué.
Nos deux porte-documents sont côte à côte dans l’herbe, mais une vie ensemble, loufoque.
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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.