# connect

> English word · Verb · IPA /kəˈnɛkt/ · frequency rank #3,746

## Definitions
1. To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
2. To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
3. To arrive at an intended target; to land.
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.
5. To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
6. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
7. To associate; to establish a relation between.
8. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin nectō
Latin cōnectō
Latin connectō
English connect
From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit.

## Easily confused with
- **conned** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-conned)
- **cornet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-cornet)
- **content** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-content)
- **contact** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-contact)
- **correct** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-correct)
- **context** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-context)
- **contest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-contest)
- **consent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-consent)
- **convert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-convert)
- **convict** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-convict)
- **convent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-convent)
- **Connell** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-connell)
- **Connery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-connery)
- **connects** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-connects)
- **connected** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-connected)
- **connector** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connect-vs-connector)
- **concept** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concept-vs-connect)
- **concert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concert-vs-connect)
- **conduct** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/conduct-vs-connect)
- **collect** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/collect-vs-connect)

## Common misspellings (9)
`cconnect`, `cnonect`, `conect`, `conenct`, `conncet`, `connecct`, `connectt`, `connetc`, `ocnnect`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/connect