portent
\pɔʁt\
The verdict
“portent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,731
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de porter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portent · portent · French
portent · rank #2,731 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,731
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pause
Nearest frequency peer: pause (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « portent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- organiser
organiser
97,273 corpus weight
- partenaires
partenaires
97,272 corpus weight
- pause
pause
97,271 corpus weight
- portent
portent
97,270 corpus weight
- propositions
propositions
97,269 corpus weight
- quart
quart
97,268 corpus weight
What this shows « portent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | portent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around portent (IPA \pɔʁt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,731 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for portent, with forms such as "oprtent", "poretnt", and "porrtent". 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, "porter", "posent", "portés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is portent, spelled P-O-R-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de porter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de porter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je suis dans la nécrozone, où le boulot m’appelle souvent – il y a beaucoup plus de pauvres que de riches, alors forcément – j’aime bien aller m’accouder en plein air à la tablette d’un brique-fast, où on peut manger des frites, des merguez de chien aux algues, des crêpes aux moules pisciculturées, des galettes de soja filé, des tas de trucs grillés…
Mes Peireskiopsis greffés se portent à merveille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprtent
- poretnt
- porrtent
- portennt
- portentt
- portetn
- portnet
- porttent
- potrent
- pportent
- protent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).