porto
\pɔʁ.to\
The verdict
“porto” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,226. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,226
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin muté portugais, produit dans la région du Haut Douro.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porto · porto · French
porto · rank #6,226 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,226
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payant
Nearest frequency peer: payant (-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 « porto »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- opérateurs
opérateurs
93,778 corpus weight
- patrie
patrie
93,777 corpus weight
- payant
payant
93,776 corpus weight
- porto
porto
93,775 corpus weight
- pourri
pourri
93,774 corpus weight
- renvoie
renvoie
93,773 corpus weight
What this shows « porto » 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 | porto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « porto »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around porto (IPA \pɔʁ.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,226 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for porto, with forms such as "oprto", "porot", and "porrto". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pro", "pot", "Post", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is porto, spelled P-O-R-T-O.
Definition
- 1Vin muté portugais, produit dans la région du Haut Douro.
- 2Verre de ce vin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après le whisky venait le porto, qui n’a de sens qu’immédiatement avant le repas, ou après une tranche de melon.
Mon jeune compagnon et moi expliquâmes à cette charmante enfant que nous avions très faim (very hungry) et qu’elle eût à faire arriver, par un amour de petit monte-plat, bordé de bleu, lui aussi – simple coïncidence – les meilleurs produits de l’art culinaire de sa maman. Celle-ci, à l’étage inférieur, éprouvait quelques distractions, du fait de marins ta…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprto
- porot
- porrto
- portto
- potro
- pporto
- proto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porto - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).