Which to use
“site” and “sites” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #613
- “site” frequency rank
- #1,878
- “sites” frequency rank
- 2491
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | site | sites |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position | plural of site |
Where the eye mixes site and sites
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. site (/saɪt/) and sites (/saɪts/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “site” sits inside “sites”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2491, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
site is recorded at frequency rank #613, classified as anoun, pronounced /saɪt/. sites is at rank #1,878, tagged as anoun, pronounced /saɪts/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 2491, this pair ranks #524,835 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of site vs sites
Shared letters: eist. Private to "site": -. Private to "sites": -.
"site" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "sites" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC