porteira
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
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - portão de madeira à entrada de fazendas
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porteira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “porteira” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around porteira, anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,414 among 3,113 “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
- 1portão de madeira à entrada de fazendas
- 2mulher que guarda porta ou portaria
- 3mulher de porteiro
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.
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.
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Using “porteira”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-O-R-T-E-I-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “poeira” - see the side-by-side comparison. porteira vs poeira
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.