portugais

\pɔʁ.ty.ɡɛ\

/\pɔʁ.ty.ɡɛ\/ adj

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The verdict

“portugais” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,601. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,601
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au Portugal, à ses habitants, à sa culture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-portugais · portugais · French

portugais · rank #4,601 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,601
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH ponts

Nearest frequency peer: ponts (-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 « portugais »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « portugais » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

portugais vs Portugal
67% similar
portugais vs portugaise
90% similar
portugais vs portugaises
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for portugais
PropertyValue
Headwordportugais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pɔʁ.ty.ɡɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,601
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portugais »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ponts » (#4,600), « poule » (#4,602), « pommes » (#4,599). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « portugais » est au #4,601. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around portugais (IPA \pɔʁ.ty.ɡɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,601 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for portugais, with forms such as "oprtugais", "porrtugais", and "portguais". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Portugal", "portugaise", "portugaises", and more, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is portugais, spelled P-O-R-T-U-G-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif au Portugal, à ses habitants, à sa culture.
  2. 2
    Relatif à la langue portugaise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Quant au Timor oriental, demeuré portugais jusqu’en 1975, il est annexé par l’Indonésie et ne deviendra indépendant qu’en 2002.

Synonyms

ibériquelusitanien

This word in other languages

Portuguese(English)portugués(Español)portugiesisch(Deutsch)português(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oprtugais
  • porrtugais
  • portguais
  • porttugais
  • portuagis
  • portugaiss
  • portugasi
  • portuggais
  • portugias
  • porutgais
  • potrugais
  • pportugais
  • protugais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portugais - 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.

oprtugais2porrtugais1portguais2porttugais1portuagis2portugaiss1portugasi2portuggais1
Edit distance from "portugais"

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 "portugais"?
"portugais" is spelled P-O-R-T-U-G-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʁ.ty.ɡɛ\.
What does "portugais" mean?
As an adjective, "portugais" means: Relatif au Portugal, à ses habitants, à sa culture.
What words are commonly confused with "portugais"?
"portugais" is commonly confused with "Portugal", "portugaise", "portugaises". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "portugais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "portugais" is \pɔʁ.ty.ɡɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "portugais" come from?
"portugais" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

préserver#4,607puissante#4,608régulière#4,619faiblesse#4,577

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

originaire13 variantsordonnance13 variantsquotidienne13 variantsVersailles13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list