Portsmouth
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
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville, Autorité unitaire et cité d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Hampshire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Portsmouth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Portsmouth” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Portsmouth, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #42,534 among 248,534 “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
- 1Ville, Autorité unitaire et cité d’Angleterre située dans le comté du Hampshire.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “Portsmouth”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-R-T-S-M-O-U-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.