work permit
"work-permit" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“work permit” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A legal authorization which allows a person to take employment in a country other than the one in which they hold citizenship.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | work permit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “work permit” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
work permit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A legal authorization which allows a person to take employment in a country other than the one in which they hold citizenship.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for work permit in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is work permit, spelled W-O-R-K- -P-E-R-M-I-T.
Definition
- 1A legal authorization which allows a person to take employment in a country other than the one in which they hold citizenship.
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.
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Using “work permit”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-O-R-K- -P-E-R-M-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.