portefeuille
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,384
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
portefeuille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enveloppe, étui de carton, d’étoffe, de cuir, servant à renfermer des papiers, des dessins, etc. Pronounced \pɔʁ.tə.fœj\. It ranks #5,384 in French word frequency. Often confused with portefeuilles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portefeuille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tə.fœj\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for portefeuille is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ.tə.fœj\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,384 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for portefeuille, with forms such as "oprtefeuille", "poretfeuille", and "porrtefeuille". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "portefeuilles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is portefeuille, spelled P-O-R-T-E-F-E-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe, étui de carton, d’étoffe, de cuir, servant à renfermer des papiers, des dessins, etc.
- 2Enveloppe, étui de carton, d’étoffe, de cuir, servant à renfermer des papiers, des dessins, etc.
- 3Cartable ou serviette de cuir, munie de poches et de compartiments, qui sert à renfermer et à porter des dossiers, des livres, etc.
- 4Cartable ou serviette de cuir, munie de poches et de compartiments, qui sert à renfermer et à porter des dossiers, des livres, etc.
- 5Cartable ou serviette de cuir, munie de poches et de compartiments, qui sert à renfermer et à porter des dossiers, des livres, etc.
- 6Pochette, petit étui plat, le plus souvent de cuir, qui peut tenir dans la poche d’un vêtement, et dans lesquels on met des billets de banque, des pièces d’identité, etc. Certains modèles peuvent contenir de la monnaie (pièces), et assurer ainsi la fonction de portemonnaie (qui est aussi un objet distinct).
- 7Budget.
- 8Collection de cartes marines constituant un ensemble complet relativement à un critère déterminé.
- 9Utilisé en apposition pour désigner un vêtement fermé sur le devant par superposition des pans droit et gauche.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprtefeuille,poretfeuille,porrtefeuille,porteefuille,portefeiulle,portefeuile,portefeuilel,portefeulile,porteffeuille,portefueille,portfeeuille,porttefeuille,potrefeuille,pportefeuille,protefeuille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for portefeuille
Misspelling Variants of "portefeuille"
Frequency rank: #5,384 in French
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Nearby French words
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