Which to use
“portée” and “poster” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,010
- “portée” frequency rank
- #5,385
- “poster” frequency rank
- 7395
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | portée | poster |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Totalité des petits que les femelles des vivipares portent et mettent bas en une fois. | Affiche dont la fonction est essentiellement décorative, qui n’est pas ou a cessé d’être publicitaire. |
Where the eye mixes portée and poster
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: portée vs poster
A purely visual mix-up. portée (\pɔ.ʁte\) and poster (\pɔs.tɛʁ\) 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 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7395, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
portée is recorded at frequency rank #2,010, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɔ.ʁte\. poster is at rank #5,385, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɔs.tɛʁ\.
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 7395, this pair ranks #423,297 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of portée vs poster
Shared letters: eoprt. Private to "portée": é. Private to "poster": s.
"portée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "poster" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- poster ← opster · posetr · posster · posterr · postre · postter · potser · pposter
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "portée" and "poster" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "portée" or "poster" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "portée" and "poster" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "portée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "poster" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #423,297 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "portée" and "poster" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pontet vs poster". 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 #423,297 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.