Which to use
“portais” and “portées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,136
- “portais” frequency rank
- #7,881
- “portées” frequency rank
- 34017
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | portais | portées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif au Port, commune française située dans le département de l’Ariège. | Féminin pluriel de porté. |
Where the eye mixes portais and portées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. portais and portées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: portais vs portées
A purely visual mix-up. portais (\pɔʁ.tɛ\) and portées (\pɔʁ.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34017, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
portais is recorded at frequency rank #26,136, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɔʁ.tɛ\. portées is at rank #7,881, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pɔʁ.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 34017, this pair ranks #286,707 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of portais vs portées
Shared letters: oprst. Private to "portais": ai. Private to "portées": eé.
"portais" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC · "portées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- portais ← oprtais · poratis · porrtais · portaiss · portasi · portias · porttais · potrais
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "portais" and "portées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "portais" or "portées" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "portais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "portées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #286,707 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "portais" and "portées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pertuis vs portais". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #286,707 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.