portée
\pɔ.ʁte\
The verdict
“portée” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,010 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,010
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Totalité des petits que les femelles des vivipares portent et mettent bas en une fois.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.ʁte\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “portée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for portée is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.ʁte\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,010 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for portée, with forms such as "oprtée", "porrtée", and "portee". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pote", "poste", "potes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is portée, spelled P-O-R-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Totalité des petits que les femelles des vivipares portent et mettent bas en une fois.
- 2Distance à laquelle quelque chose peut porter, peut atteindre. Il se dit spécialement en parlant des armes de tir.
- 3Se dit également en parlant de la voix, de la vue, de l’ouïe. On dit plutôt aujourd’hui : à portée de.
- 4Ce que peut faire, ce que peut concevoir, produire, exécuter l’esprit d’une personne.
- 5Ce que peut faire une personne par rapport à sa naissance, à sa fortune, à sa position.
- 6Force, valeur, ou importance d’un raisonnement, d’une expression, etc.
- 7Partie d’un taillis la plus haute où le bois du cerf laisse des traces, en faisant plier des branches.
- 8Longueur libre d’une pierre, d’une pièce de bois, etc., placée horizontalement dans une construction, et soutenue par un ou plusieurs points d’appui.
- 9Partie d’une pierre ou d’une pièce de charpente ainsi placée, qui porte sur le mur, sur un pilier, etc.
- 10Les cinq lignes parallèles sur lesquelles ou entre lesquelles s’inscrivent les notes.
- 11Étendue d’une variable : publique, privée ou protégée.
- 12À la pétanque, envoi très haut de la boule pour qu’elle retombe presque à la verticale, à moins de deux mètres de l’emplacement idéal pour marquer un point.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprtée,porrtée,portee,porteé,porttée,poréte,potrée,pportée,protée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “portée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-R-T-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔ.ʁte\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pote” - see the side-by-side comparison. portée vs pote
- 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.