port of entry
"port-of-entry" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“port of entry” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | port of entry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “port of entry” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for port of entry is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for port of entry 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is port of entry, spelled P-O-R-T- -O-F- -E-N-T-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A harbor, airport, or border crossing where goods or immigrants enter a country.
- 2The location or mechanism by which a foreign entity gains entry into the body or self.
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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 of entry”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-O-R-T- -O-F- -E-N-T-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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