porta

Other forms of porta

plural

portas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about porta

What does porta mean?

porta means "an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity".

How many syllables are in porta?

porta has 2 syllables: por-ta. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹtə/.

What is another word for porta?

Close synonyms include orifice, opening. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is porta a common word?

porta is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.