portier

\pɔʁ.tje\

/\pɔʁ.tje\/ noun

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The verdict

“portier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,970
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme dont la profession est de garder une porte d’entrée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-portier · portier · French

portier · rank #16,970 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,970
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH polar

Nearest frequency peer: polar (-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 « portier »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « portier » 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).

portier vs prier
71% similar
portier vs poster
71% similar
portier vs potter
71% similar

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

Key facts for portier
PropertyValue
Headwordportier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔʁ.tje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#16,970
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portier »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.portierse 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 « polar » (#16,969), « poirier » (#16,968), « proposez » (#16,973). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « portier » est au #16,970. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around portier (IPA \pɔʁ.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,970 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for portier, with forms such as "oprtier", "poriter", and "porrtier". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prier", "poster", "potter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is portier, spelled P-O-R-T-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Homme dont la profession est de garder une porte d’entrée.
  2. 2
    Religieux qui a le soin d’ouvrir et de fermer la porte d’un couvent.
  3. 3
    Dispositif qui ouvre ou ferme une porte de façon automatique.
  4. 4
    Gardien de but.
  5. 5
    Concierge, gardien.
  6. 6
    Premier (ou dernier selon le sens) du Klub, 50ᵉ en partant de la fin du classement de sortie.
  7. 7
    Logiciel généralement associé à une ou plusieurs passerelles, qui assure notamment la conversion des adresses et vérifie les autorisations d’accès à un réseau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Mon hôtel, en façade sur l’une des principales voies, a vraiment noble allure : des portiers corrects gardent son huis.
  2. Couché sur le mur d’enceinte, sa casquette enfoncée jusqu’aux sourcils, le portier, malgré la nonchalance de son attitude, réussissait à se donner des airs de sentinelle.

Synonyms

chasse-chiencontrôleur d’accès

This word in other languages

doorman(English)portero(Español)Portier(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oprtier
  • poriter
  • porrtier
  • porteir
  • portierr
  • portire
  • porttier
  • potrier
  • pportier
  • protier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

oprtier2poriter2porrtier1porteir2portierr1portire2porttier1potrier2
Edit distance from "portier"

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 "portier"?
"portier" is spelled P-O-R-T-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʁ.tje\.
What does "portier" mean?
As a noun, "portier" means: Homme dont la profession est de garder une porte d’entrée.
What words are commonly confused with "portier"?
"portier" is commonly confused with "prier", "poster", "potter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "portier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "portier" is \pɔʁ.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "portier" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

poirier#16,968pénétré#16,976pétales#16,977rappels#16,979

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

relevée10 variantsricains10 variantsrouleaux10 variantsroulent10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list