portion
\pɔʁ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“portion” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,101
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’un tout divisé, ou considéré comme tel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portion · portion · French
portion · rank #7,101 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,101
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaint
Nearest frequency peer: plaint (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “portion”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- paramètres
paramètres
92,904 corpus weight
- plaint
plaint
92,901 corpus weight
- portion
portion
92,900 corpus weight
- procurer
procurer
92,899 corpus weight
- progresser
progresser
92,898 corpus weight
- provincial
provincial
92,897 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “portion” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | portion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “portion” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around portion (IPA \pɔʁ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,101 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for portion, with forms such as "oprtion", "poriton", and "porrtion". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "porto", "potion", "portons", and more, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is portion, spelled P-O-R-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partie d’un tout divisé, ou considéré comme tel.
- 2Partie d’une succession attribuée à chaque héritier.
- 3Quantité de pain, de viande, etc., qu’on donne, dans le repas, à chacun en particulier; surtout en parlant des collèges, des communautés religieuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], j'ai eu l'honneur de communiquer à l'Institut royal de France une note, ayant pour objet de prouver, contrairement à l'opinion généralement reçue, que le seigle ergoté perd une portion de ses propriétés toxiques par la fermentation et la cuisson panaire.
Le conseil persiste dans l'avis qu'il a déjà émis l'année dernière, pour la réunion à la ville de Réthel d'une portion de la commune de Sault-lès-Réthel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprtion
- poriton
- porrtion
- portino
- portionn
- portoin
- porttion
- potrion
- pportion
- protion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portion - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "portion" maps to 13 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "porto". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,101 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.