porteur
\pɔʁ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“porteur” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,332 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,332
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne dont le métier ordinaire est de porter quelque chose.
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 | porteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “porteur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for porteur is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,332 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 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for porteur, with forms such as "oprteur", "poretur", and "porrteur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "poster", "potter", "portez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is porteur, spelled P-O-R-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne dont le métier ordinaire est de porter quelque chose.
- 2Personne qui réalise un projet, qui rassemble les moyens nécessaires pour concrétiser son idée.
- 3Personne qui détient un document.
- 4Personne chargée de remettre une lettre à son destinataire.
- 5Personne en faveur de qui une lettre de change, une traite a été souscrite ou endossée.
- 6Personne qui, anonyme, reçoit payement d’un effet de commerce, qu’il présente.
- 7Propriétaire d’un titre de valeur mobilière.
- 8Cheval monté par un postillon conduisant une voiture à plusieurs chevaux.
- 9Capitaine de navire exerçant une fonction de responsabilité sans commander à la manœuvre.
- 10Guérisseur qui traite les malades souffrant notamment d’eczéma ou de zona, en les portant.
- 11On a constaté quatre passages de porteurs à vapeur entre Pont-à-Bar et Troussey — (Pierre Berthot, Cours de construction : Traité des routes, rivières et canaux, tome 3 : Canaux, chap. 8 : État des voies navigables-France, Paris : chez Georges Fanchon, 1898, p. 853)
- 12Engin de débardage par portage, sans traîne.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprteur,poretur,porrteur,porteru,porteurr,portteur,portuer,potreur,pporteur,proteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porteur - 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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Using “porteur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-R-T-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔʁ.tœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “poster” - see the side-by-side comparison. porteur vs poster
- 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.