Which to use
“portée” and “potes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,010
- “portée” frequency rank
- #3,488
- “potes” frequency rank
- 5498
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | portée | potes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Totalité des petits que les femelles des vivipares portent et mettent bas en une fois. | Pluriel de pote. |
Where the eye mixes portée and potes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: portée vs potes
A purely visual mix-up. portée (\pɔ.ʁte\) and potes (\pɔt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5498, 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\. potes is at rank #3,488, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɔt\.
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 5498, this pair ranks #428,848 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of portée vs potes
Shared letters: eopt. Private to "portée": ré. Private to "potes": s.
"portée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "potes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- potes ← optes · poets · potess · pottes · ppotes · ptoes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "portée" for "potes" ever safe?
Which is more common, "portée" or "potes"?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "portée" and "potes" 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 "potes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #428,848 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "portée" and "potes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pontet vs potes". 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 #428,848 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.