porteira

noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#34,414

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

porteira is aPortuguesenoun. It means: portão de madeira à entrada de fazendas Often confused with poeira and pereira.

Key facts for porteira
PropertyValue
Headwordporteira
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#34,414
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of porteira in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for porteira is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #34,414 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for porteira, with forms such as "oprteira", "poretira", and "porrteira". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "poeira", "pereira", "porreiro", 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 porteira, spelled P-O-R-T-E-I-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    portão de madeira à entrada de fazendas
  2. 2
    mulher que guarda porta ou portaria
  3. 3
    mulher de porteiro

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oprteira,poretira,porrteira,porteiar,porteirra,porteria,portiera,portteira,potreira,pporteira,proteira

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for porteira

Misspelling Variants of "porteira"

oprteira8poretira8porrteira9porteiar8porteirra9porteria8portiera8portteira9
Misspelling Variants of "porteira"

Frequency rank: #34,414 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "porteira"?
"porteira" is spelled P-O-R-T-E-I-R-A.
What does "porteira" mean?
As a noun, "porteira" means: portão de madeira à entrada de fazendas
What words are commonly confused with "porteira"?
"porteira" is commonly confused with "poeira", "pereira", "porreiro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "porteira" come from?
"porteira" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.