heliport
/ˈhɛlɪˌpoɹt/
"heliport" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heliport” is uncommon English (frequency #74,163 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,163
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A facility, such as a small airport, designed to let helicopters take off and land.
Corpus desk
Index EN-heliport · heliport · English
heliport · rank #74,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,163
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH helpfulness
Nearest frequency peer: helpfulness (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “heliport”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hedonic
hedonic
25,841 corpus weight
- Heenan
Heenan
25,840 corpus weight
- heliport
heliport
25,838 corpus weight
- helpfulness
helpfulness
25,837 corpus weight
- Hephaestus
Hephaestus
25,836 corpus weight
- Hesketh
Hesketh
25,835 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “heliport” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heliport |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɛlɪˌpoɹt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “heliport” in English
Rare enough to double-check
heliport is uncommon English at frequency #74,163 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhɛlɪˌpoɹt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A facility, such as a small airport, designed to let helicopters take off and land.".
No misspelling variants are generated for heliport in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of helicopter + port, by analogy to airport. The correct English form is heliport, spelled H-E-L-I-P-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1A facility, such as a small airport, designed to let helicopters take off and land.
Etymology
Blend of helicopter + port, by analogy to airport.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).