portillon
\pɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“portillon” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,521
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite porte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portillon · portillon · French
portillon · rank #47,521 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,521
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH popotin
Nearest frequency peer: popotin (-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 « portillon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- planant
planant
52,483 corpus weight
- plantain
plantain
52,482 corpus weight
- popotin
popotin
52,481 corpus weight
- portillon
portillon
52,480 corpus weight
- posologie
posologie
52,479 corpus weight
- postulants
postulants
52,478 corpus weight
What this shows « portillon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portillon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around portillon (IPA \pɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,521 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for portillon, with forms such as "oprtillon", "poritllon", and "porrtillon". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "portion", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is portillon, spelled P-O-R-T-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petite porte.
- 2Petite porte à claire-voie qui, placée à côté de la barrière d’un passage à niveau, permet aux piétons de traverser la voie du chemin de fer.
- 3Système de contrôle d'accès à un transport en commun qui empêche les personnes sans billet de passer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how portillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’impossibilité d’en savoir plus, je suis allé prendre mon métro. Même fièvre au guichet, aux portillons, sur le quai.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprtillon
- poritllon
- porrtillon
- portillno
- portillonn
- portiloln
- portilon
- portlilon
- porttillon
- potrillon
- pportillon
- protillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portillon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "portillon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).