porta
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#832
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
porta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: peça de madeira, metal ou vidro usada para fechar o buraco aberto numa construção por onde pessoas passam de um cômodo para outro ou de dentro para fora da construção Pronounced /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/. It ranks #832 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with puta and pote.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for porta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #832 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for porta, with forms such as "oprta", "porat", and "porrta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "puta", "pote", "poxa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is porta, spelled P-O-R-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1peça de madeira, metal ou vidro usada para fechar o buraco aberto numa construção por onde pessoas passam de um cômodo para outro ou de dentro para fora da construção
- 2peça que permite abrir um compartimento
- 3pessoa burra, parva, pedra
- 4num computador, local de comunicação com a rede de telecomunicações
- 5meio de acesso a algum objetivo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprta,porat,porrta,portta,potra,pporta,prota
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for porta
Misspelling Variants of "porta"
Frequency rank: #832 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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