Port of Spain
/ˈpɔːt əv ˈspeɪn/
"port-of-spain" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Port of Spain” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Trinidad and Tobago.
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|---|---|
| Headword | Port of Spain |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɔːt əv ˈspeɪn/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Port of Spain” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Port of Spain is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɔːt əv ˈspeɪn/. 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 Trinidad and Tobago.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Port of Spain 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: Calque of Spanish Puerto España. 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 of Spain, spelled P-O-R-T- -O-F- -S-P-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Trinidad and Tobago.
Etymology
Calque of Spanish Puerto España.
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- The one correct English spelling is P-O-R-T- -O-F- -S-P-A-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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