partyvsporteWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: party is a adjective, porte is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“party” is an adjective and “porte” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,875
“party” frequency rank
#4,093
“porte” frequency rank
9968
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature party porte
Definition relativo a partido o ato de portar, transportar

Letter map: party vs porte

Shared letters muted; letters that set party and porte apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. party and porte follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
party
5 ch
porte

Grammar separator: party vs porte

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: party is anadjective and porteanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9968, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

party is recorded at frequency rank #5,875, classified as anadj. porte is at rank #4,093, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈpɔɾ.tɨ/.

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 9968, this pair ranks #63,278 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of party vs porte

Shared letters: prt. Private to "party": ay. Private to "porte": eo.

"party" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "porte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • party ← aprty · parrty · partty · partyy · paryt · patry · pparty · praty
  • porte ← oprte · poret · porrte · portte · potre · pporte · prote

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "party" and "porte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "party" is an adjective and "porte" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "party" vs "porte" - which ranks higher?
"porte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,093 in our Portuguese list, against #5,875 for "party". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "party" and "porte".

  • Full dictionary entry for "party" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "porte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #63,278 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "party" and "porte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "porrete vs porte". 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 #63,278 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list