portière
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,241
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
portière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme dont la profession est de garder une porte d’entrée. Pronounced \pɔʁ.tjɛʁ\. Often confused with prière and potier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for portière is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ.tjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,241 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 generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for portière, with forms such as "oprtière", "poritère", and "porrtière". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "prière", "potier", "postier", 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 portière, spelled P-O-R-T-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femme dont la profession est de garder une porte d’entrée.
- 2Épouse d’un portier.
- 3Personne bavarde, souvent médisante.
- 4Religieuse qui a le soin d’ouvrir et de fermer la porte d’un couvent.
- 5Ouverture de la voiture, du wagon ou de l’avion par où l’on monte et l’on descend.
- 6Sorte de porte qui sert à fermer cette ouverture.
- 7Tenture qu’on met devant une porte, pour empêcher le vent ou par ornement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprtière,poritère,porrtière,portiere,portirèe,portièer,portièrre,porttière,portèire,potrière,pportière,protière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for portière
Misspelling Variants of "portière"
Frequency rank: #20,241 in French
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