porter ses fruits
\pɔʁ.te se fʁɥi\
The verdict
“porter ses fruits” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir des effets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porter-ses-fruits · porter ses fruits · French
porter ses fruits · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 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 | porter ses fruits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.te se fʁɥi\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porter ses fruits » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porter ses fruits is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔʁ.te se fʁɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avoir des effets.".
porter ses fruits doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 porter ses fruits, spelled P-O-R-T-E-R- -S-E-S- -F-R-U-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Avoir des effets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porter ses fruits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les randonnées du dimanche portaient leurs fruits : il parvenait à maintenir une vitesse régulière dans la montée sans que son cœur ne s'emballât.
Mais leur schéma d’investissement tarde à porter ses fruits pour la France au niveau macroéconomique, notamment en termes d’emploi.
This word in other languages
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.