porteurs
\pɔʁ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“porteurs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,480
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de porteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porteurs · porteurs · French
porteurs · rank #7,480 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,480
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH politiciens
Nearest frequency peer: politiciens (-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 « porteurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pervers
pervers
92,525 corpus weight
- pirate
pirate
92,523 corpus weight
- politiciens
politiciens
92,522 corpus weight
- porteurs
porteurs
92,521 corpus weight
- potentielle…
potentiellement
92,520 corpus weight
- potentiels
potentiels
92,519 corpus weight
What this shows « porteurs » 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 | porteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « porteurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around porteurs (IPA \pɔʁ.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,480 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de porteur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for porteurs, with forms such as "oprteurs", "poreturs", and "porrteurs". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "posters", "porteuse", "prêteurs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is porteurs, spelled P-O-R-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de porteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how porteurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son premier cep l’émut : quand elle fit sauter le lien de paille, elle eut l’impression de déceinturer une fille, après quoi, écartant les sarments, porteurs de grappes, fourrageant entre les grosses feuilles cuirassées de sulfate, elle eut la sensation gênante de violer de ses propres mains et de fouiller elle ne savait quels ovaires dont elle ramenait l…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprteurs
- poreturs
- porrteurs
- porterus
- porteurrs
- porteurss
- porteusr
- portteurs
- portuers
- potreurs
- pporteurs
- proteurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porteurs - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).