Which to use
“porte” is a noun and “postée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #284
- “porte” frequency rank
- #19,947
- “postée” frequency rank
- 20231
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | porte | postée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ouverture battante dans un mur qui permet d’entrer ou sortir d’un endroit. | Féminin singulier de posté. |
Where the eye mixes porte and postée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. porte runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against postée's 6 (CVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between porte and postée
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: porte is \pɔʁt\ while postée is \pɔs.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20231, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
porte is recorded at frequency rank #284, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɔʁt\. postée is at rank #19,947, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pɔs.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 20231, this pair ranks #369,336 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of porte vs postée
Shared letters: eopt. Private to "porte": r. Private to "postée": sé.
"porte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "postée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- porte ← oprte · poret · porrte · portte · potre · pporte · prote
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "porte" and "postée" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "porte" or "postée" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "porte" and "postée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "porte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "postée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #369,336 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "porte" and "postée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pontet vs postée". 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 #369,336 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.