portiers
\pɔʁ.tje\
The verdict
“portiers” is uncommon French (frequency #56,183 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,183
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de portier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portiers · portiers · French
portiers · rank #56,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,183
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH politburo
Nearest frequency peer: politburo (-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 « portiers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polish
polish
43,821 corpus weight
- polit
polit
43,820 corpus weight
- politburo
politburo
43,819 corpus weight
- portiers
portiers
43,818 corpus weight
- poserai
poserai
43,817 corpus weight
- possédées
possédées
43,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « portiers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « portiers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
portiers is uncommon French at frequency #56,183 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de portier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for portiers, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is portiers, spelled P-O-R-T-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de portier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how portiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le poêle endort, il hébète et contribue singulièrement à crétiniser les portiers et les employés.
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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