port wine
"port-wine" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“port wine” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of fortified wine traditionally made in Portugal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-port-wine · port wine · English
port wine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | port wine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “port wine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
port wine is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of fortified wine traditionally made in Portugal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for port wine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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 Portuguese vinho do Porto, wherein the city name Porto is etymologically identical to the word porto (“port”). The correct English form is port wine, spelled P-O-R-T- -W-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A type of fortified wine traditionally made in Portugal.
Etymology
Calque of Portuguese vinho do Porto, wherein the city name Porto is etymologically identical to the word porto (“port”).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.