conveyor belt
"conveyor-belt" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“conveyor belt” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A continuous flexible band moved by a series of rollers to transport objects or material from one place to another, especially within a factory or mine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-conveyor-belt · conveyor belt · English
conveyor belt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conveyor belt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “conveyor belt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
conveyor belt is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A continuous flexible band moved by a series of rollers to transport objects or material from one place to another, especially within a factory or mine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for conveyor belt, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From conveyor + belt. The correct English form is conveyor belt, spelled C-O-N-V-E-Y-O-R- -B-E-L-T.
Definition
- 1A continuous flexible band moved by a series of rollers to transport objects or material from one place to another, especially within a factory or mine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conveyor belt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some stone was being loaded into standard gauge wagons by means of a portable conveyor belt.
BR success in establishing this new "Company" train service follows a year's operation of a conveyor-belt traffic in car parts between the Ford plant at Dagenham and the firm's recently-opened £30m Merseyside factory at Halewood, where Ford Corsairs, Capris and Anglias are manufactured.
Etymology
From conveyor + belt.
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.