Porthos
The verdict
“Porthos” is uncommon French (frequency #63,255 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,255
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mousquetaire du roi dans Les Trois Mousquetaires d’Alexandre Dumas
Corpus desk
Index FR-porthos · Porthos · French
Porthos · rank #63,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,255
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poreuses
Nearest frequency peer: poreuses (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Porthos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poo
poo
36,748 corpus weight
- poreuses
poreuses
36,747 corpus weight
- Porthos
Porthos
36,746 corpus weight
- potential
potential
36,745 corpus weight
- poulpes
poulpes
36,744 corpus weight
- pratiquons
pratiquons
36,743 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Porthos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Porthos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Porthos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Porthos is uncommon French at frequency #63,255 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mousquetaire du roi dans Les Trois Mousquetaires d’Alexandre Dumas".
Zero misspellings are on record for Porthos in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Porthos, spelled P-O-R-T-H-O-S.
Definition
- 1Mousquetaire du roi dans Les Trois Mousquetaires d’Alexandre Dumas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Porthos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pourrait presque croire qu’Alexandre Dumas a écrit Les Trois Mousquetaires pour Vincent Cassel (Athos), François Civil (D’Artagnan), Pio Marmaï (Porthos) et Romain Duris (Aramis).
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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