connect
con·nect/kəˈnɛkt/verb, noun
connect is spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T, 2 syllables: con·nect. The wrong spelling people search most is conect: about 630 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 53 of all searches for the word. Connect is a verb meaning “To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object”.
How many letters and syllables are in connect?
| Letters | 7: C-O-N-N-E-C-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: con·nect |
| In writing | 24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, conect, about 630 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell connect?
Connect is spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 53 of the searches for connect in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is connect?
Connect appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce connect?
- /kəˈnɛkt/
Connect has 2 syllables, split con·nect in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-connect.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with connect?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as connect.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: concent.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of connect
- connects present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- connecting participle, present
- connected participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does connect mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
I think this piece connects to that piece over there.
- 2
To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
Both roads have the same name, but they don't connect: they're on opposite sides of the river, and there's no bridge there.
- 3
To arrive at an intended target; to land.
When that roundhouse kick connected with his temple it sent him flying across the room.
- 4
To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
The new railroad will connect the northern part of the state to the southern part.
- 5
To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
I connected the printer to the computer, but I couldn't get it work.
- 6
To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
When the technician connects my house, I'll be able to access the internet.
- 7
To associate; to establish a relation between.
I didn't connect my lost jewelry with the news of an area cat burglar until the police contacted me.
- 8
To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
I'm flying to London where I connect with a flight heading to Hungary.
noun
- 1
slangA drug dealer.
- 2
slangA useful friend or associate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Connect in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accoupler, connecter , brancher |
| German | verbinden , anschließen |
| Portuguese | conectar |
| Spanish | conectar, empalmar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does connect come from?
From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).