porteira

noun

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The verdict

“porteira” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #34,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,414
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,578
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - portão de madeira à entrada de fazendas

Corpus desk

Index PT-porteira · porteira · Portuguese

porteira · rank #34,414 · 11 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,414
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,578
  • PHOTO-FINISH porventura

Nearest frequency peer: porventura (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “porteira”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “porteira” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

porteira vs poeira
75% similar
porteira vs pereira
75% similar
porteira vs porreiro
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Frequência do íman ortográfico “porteira”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.porteiracai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “porventura” (#34,415), “piauiense” (#34,408), “perspicácia” (#34,405). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “porteira” fica em #34,414. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around porteira, anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,414 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for porteira, with forms such as "oprteira", "poretira", and "porrteira". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "poeira", "pereira", "porreiro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is porteira, spelled P-O-R-T-E-I-R-A.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how porteira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ele pode estar em sua casa de praia, mas não vai dormir sossegado, sempre ligando para o caseiro para ver se o cadeado da porteira ainda não foi quebrado.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oprteira
  • poretira
  • porrteira
  • porteiar
  • porteirra
  • porteria
  • portiera
  • portteira
  • potreira
  • pporteira
  • proteira

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porteira - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

oprteira2poretira2porrteira1porteiar2porteirra1porteria2portiera2portteira1
Edit distance from "porteira"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "porteira", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

penumbra#34,403quinteto#34,429remissão#34,440matutino#34,364

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

piauiense11 variantsmaléfico11 variantsladainha11 variantsensaísta11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list