Portsmouth

name

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The verdict

“Portsmouth” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,534
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, Autorité unitaire et cité d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Hampshire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-portsmouth · Portsmouth · French

Portsmouth · rank #42,534 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,534
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH poppy

Nearest frequency peer: poppy (-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 « Portsmouth »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Portsmouth » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Portsmouth
PropertyValue
HeadwordPortsmouth
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#42,534
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Portsmouth »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Portsmouthse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « poppy » (#42,533), « Poséidon » (#42,535), « Pondichéry » (#42,532). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Portsmouth » est au #42,534. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around Portsmouth, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #42,534 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville, Autorité unitaire et cité d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Hampshire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Portsmouth, with forms such as "oprtsmouth", "porrtsmouth", and "porstmouth". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Portsmouth, spelled P-O-R-T-S-M-O-U-T-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville, Autorité unitaire et cité d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Hampshire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Portsmouth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je passai en France résolue à y demeurer pendant tout le reste de ma vie ; mais toute ma fortune est en Angleterre ; les communications fermées par la guerre, tout me manqua : force fut alors d’y revenir ; il y a six jours j’abordais à Portsmouth.
  2. D’ordinaire, la traversée prenait à peine quatre jours, mais celle-ci, exceptionnellement, en durerait six, la paquebot s’arrêtant à Portsmouth, puis à Cork pour embarquer d’autres passagers.

This word in other languages

Portsmouth(English)Portsmouth(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oprtsmouth
  • porrtsmouth
  • porstmouth
  • portmsouth
  • portsmmouth
  • portsmotuh
  • portsmouht
  • portsmouthh
  • portsmoutth
  • portsmuoth
  • portsomuth
  • portssmouth
  • porttsmouth
  • potrsmouth
  • pportsmouth
  • protsmouth

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Portsmouth - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

oprtsmouth2porrtsmouth1porstmouth2portmsouth2portsmmouth1portsmotuh2portsmouht2portsmouthh1
Edit distance from "Portsmouth"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Portsmouth"?
"Portsmouth" is spelled P-O-R-T-S-M-O-U-T-H.
What does "Portsmouth" mean?
As a proper noun, "Portsmouth" means: Ville, Autorité unitaire et cité d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Hampshire.
What are common misspellings of "Portsmouth"?
Common misspellings include "oprtsmouth", "porrtsmouth", "porstmouth", "portmsouth", "portsmmouth". The correct spelling is "Portsmouth".
What language does "Portsmouth" come from?
"Portsmouth" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Portsmouth", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Pondichéry#42,532pluraliste#42,530présuppose#42,544phosphates#42,521

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

recyclable16 variantsrefusèrent16 variantsrétroactif16 variantssporadiques16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list