portier
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,970
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
portier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Homme dont la profession est de garder une porte d’entrée. Pronounced \pɔʁ.tje\. Often confused with prier and poster.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for portier is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ.tje\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,970 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for portier, with forms such as "oprtier", "poriter", and "porrtier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prier", "poster", "potter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is portier, spelled P-O-R-T-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Homme dont la profession est de garder une porte d’entrée.
- 2Religieux qui a le soin d’ouvrir et de fermer la porte d’un couvent.
- 3Dispositif qui ouvre ou ferme une porte de façon automatique.
- 4Gardien de but.
- 5Concierge, gardien.
- 6Premier (ou dernier selon le sens) du Klub, 50ᵉ en partant de la fin du classement de sortie.
- 7Logiciel généralement associé à une ou plusieurs passerelles, qui assure notamment la conversion des adresses et vérifie les autorisations d’accès à un réseau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprtier,poriter,porrtier,porteir,portierr,portire,porttier,potrier,pportier,protier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "portier"
Frequency rank: #16,970 in French
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