How to spell passport

hear itpass·port/'pæspoʊrt/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: A document allowing international travel.

In a sentence: She needed her passport to travel to another country.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s. Often misspelled as pasport or passpourt.

Same family: visa, ID card, identification, customs, border. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “passport” comes from Middle French “passeport,” originally meaning a document that let someone pass through a port or gate. Over time it came to mean the official paper that allows people to travel between countries.

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