conveyor belt

noun

"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

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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.

Key facts for conveyor belt
PropertyValue
Headwordconveyor belt
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “conveyor belt” in English

conveyor beltranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how conveyor belt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Some stone was being loaded into standard gauge wagons by means of a portable conveyor belt.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conveyor belt"?
"conveyor belt" is spelled C-O-N-V-E-Y-O-R- -B-E-L-T.
What does "conveyor belt" mean?
As a noun, "conveyor belt" means: 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.
What is the origin of the word "conveyor belt"?
From conveyor + belt. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list