passport
/ˈpæspɔɹt/noun, verb
passport is spelled P-A-S-S-P-O-R-T. The wrong spelling people search most is pasport: about 1,140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 135 of all searches for the word. Passport is a noun meaning “An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of…”. The plural of passport is passports.
How many letters and syllables are in passport?
| Letters | 8: P-A-S-S-P-O-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pasport, about 1,140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell passport?
Passport is spelled P-A-S-S-P-O-R-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 136 of the searches for passport in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is passport?
Passport appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce passport?
- UK /ˈpɑːspɔːt/
- US /ˈpæspɔɹt/
Passport has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-passport.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of passport
- passports plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- passporting participle, present
- passported participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does passport mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.
You will have to bring your passport to prove who you are.
- 2
informalAny document that allows entry or passage.
- 3
Something which enables someone to do or achieve something.
The tenor's voice was his passport to the international concert circuit.
- 4
An identification document used by firefighters, collected when they enter a dangerous area and returned when they leave, to keep track of who is still in the area.
verb
- 1
To regulate how money given to a local authority must be spent.
- 2
Providing the legal requirements to enable or legitimize cross-border economic activity.
- 3
To enable eligibility for a benefit automatically based on eligibility for a different benefit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Passport in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense official document for foreign travel:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | passeport |
| German | Reisepass, Pass |
| Portuguese | passaporte |
| Spanish | pasaporte |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does passport come from?
From French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent to pass + port.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).