porteur de valises
\pɔʁ.tœʁ də va.liz\
The verdict
“porteur de valises” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bagagiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porteur-de-valises · porteur de valises · French
porteur de valises · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | porteur de valises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tœʁ də va.liz\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porteur de valises » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porteur de valises is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tœʁ də va.liz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
porteur de valises doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is porteur de valises, spelled P-O-R-T-E-U-R- -D-E- -V-A-L-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Bagagiste.
- 2Intermédiaire, convoyeur de fonds ou de marchandises occultes.
- 3Surnom donné aux militants français transportant des fonds et des faux-papiers pour le compte du Front de libération nationale (FLN) pendant la guerre d’Algérie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porteur de valises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je travaillais à l’époque comme porteur de valises à la gare de Lausanne et cette rencontre avait de quoi m’embarrasser.
Quand on ne peut pas se tirer d’affaire tout seul, on peut encore prendre à la douane de Galata quelque pauvre diable modeste et timide, porteur de valises et truchement, raccommodeur de boutons et commissionnaire corvéable à merci.
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.