portuaires
\pɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\
The verdict
“portuaires” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,297
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de portuaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portuaires · portuaires · French
portuaires · rank #28,297 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,297
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH politicienne
Nearest frequency peer: politicienne (-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 « portuaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plongent
plongent
71,707 corpus weight
- poilus
poilus
71,706 corpus weight
- politicienne
politicienne
71,705 corpus weight
- portuaires
portuaires
71,704 corpus weight
- portugaises
portugaises
71,703 corpus weight
- program
program
71,702 corpus weight
What this shows « portuaires » 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 | portuaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portuaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around portuaires (IPA \pɔʁ.tɥɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,297 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de portuaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for portuaires, with forms such as "oprtuaires", "porrtuaires", and "portauires". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "portugaises", "portuaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is portuaires, spelled P-O-R-T-U-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de portuaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how portuaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En juillet 2018, l’armateur MSC a décidé d’abandonner le port de Bordeaux pour privilégier le rail faute d’infrastructures portuaires jugées satisfaisantes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprtuaires
- porrtuaires
- portauires
- porttuaires
- portuaiers
- portuairess
- portuairres
- portuairse
- portuaries
- portuiares
- porutaires
- potruaires
- pportuaires
- protuaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portuaires - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).