porteuse

\pɔʁ.tøz\

/\pɔʁ.tøz\/ noun

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The verdict

“porteuse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,723
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle dont le métier ordinaire est de porter quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-porteuse · porteuse · French

porteuse · rank #15,723 · 11 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,723
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH porta

Nearest frequency peer: porta (-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 « porteuse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « porteuse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

porteuse vs porteuses
89% similar
porteuse vs portée
63% similar
porteuse vs portés
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for porteuse
PropertyValue
Headwordporteuse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔʁ.tøz\
Letters8
Frequency rank#15,723
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « porteuse »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).porteusese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « porta » (#15,722), « poussin » (#15,724), « Polynésie » (#15,721). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « porteuse » est au #15,723. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around porteuse (IPA \pɔʁ.tøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,723 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for porteuse, with forms such as "oprteuse", "poretuse", and "porrteuse". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "porteuses", "portée", "portés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is porteuse, spelled P-O-R-T-E-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle dont le métier ordinaire est de porter quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Celle qui réalise un projet, qui rassemble les moyens nécessaires pour concrétiser son idée.
  3. 3
    Celle qui détient un document.
  4. 4
    Celle qui est chargée de remettre une lettre à son destinataire.
  5. 5
    Signal de fréquence constante qui, par différentes techniques de modulation, sert de support à la transmission des données.
  6. 6
    Signal de base à la fréquence de commutation de l’actionneur, qui permet de créer une forme d’onde de fréquence inférieure après filtrage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how porteuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — Il y a bien, dit-il, la porteuse de pain des Tintelleries. Mais elle aime la boisson.
  2. Une porteuse de projet.

This word in other languages

carrier(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oprteuse
  • poretuse
  • porrteuse
  • portesue
  • porteues
  • porteusse
  • portteuse
  • portuese
  • potreuse
  • pporteuse
  • proteuse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porteuse - 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.

oprteuse2poretuse2porrteuse1portesue2porteues2porteusse1portteuse1portuese2
Edit distance from "porteuse"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "porteuse"?
"porteuse" is spelled P-O-R-T-E-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʁ.tøz\.
What does "porteuse" mean?
As a noun, "porteuse" means: Celle dont le métier ordinaire est de porter quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "porteuse"?
"porteuse" is commonly confused with "porteuses", "portée", "portés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "porteuse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "porteuse" is \pɔʁ.tøz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "porteuse" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "porteuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

perplexe#15,714patinage#15,709parvenue#15,707partiels#15,706

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

pénales11 variantsrecréer11 variantsroberts11 variantsRoumains11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list