Port-au-Prince
/ˌpɔːtəʊˈpɹɪns/
"port-au-prince" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Port-au-Prince” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Haiti.
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|---|---|
| Headword | Port-au-Prince |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌpɔːtəʊˈpɹɪns/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Port-au-Prince” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Port-au-Prince is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌpɔːtəʊˈpɹɪns/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The capital city of Haiti.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Port-au-Prince in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Port-au-Prince. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Port-au-Prince, spelled P-O-R-T---A-U---P-R-I-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Haiti.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Port-au-Prince.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Port-au-Prince”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-O-R-T---A-U---P-R-I-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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