portus
\por.tus\
The verdict
“portus” is uncommon French (frequency #95,177 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,177
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conditionnel de porti.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portus · portus · French
portus · rank #95,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,177
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Portishead
Nearest frequency peer: Portishead (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « portus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ponctionne
ponctionne
4,827 corpus weight
- Pontorson
Pontorson
4,826 corpus weight
- Portishead
Portishead
4,825 corpus weight
- portus
portus
4,824 corpus weight
- posiez
posiez
4,822 corpus weight
- posted
posted
4,821 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « portus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \por.tus\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « portus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
portus is uncommon French at frequency #95,177 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \por.tus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conditionnel de porti.".
Zero misspellings are on record for portus in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is portus, spelled P-O-R-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Conditionnel de porti.
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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