# exit

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɛksɪt/ · frequency rank #3,943

## Definitions
1. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
2. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
3. A way out.
4. A way out.
5. The act of departing from life; death.

## Etymology
From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido and exitus.
The verb is derived from the noun.

## Easily confused with
- **expo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/exit-vs-expo)
- **exon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/exit-vs-exon)
- **expat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/exit-vs-expat)
- **ex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ex-vs-exit)
- **et** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/et-vs-exit)
- **EI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ei-vs-exit)
- **eat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eat-vs-exit)
- **est** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/est-vs-exit)
- **Eli** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eli-vs-exit)
- **EDT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/edt-vs-exit)
- **Eid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eid-vs-exit)
- **ECT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ect-vs-exit)
- **EMT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emt-vs-exit)
- **exe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/exe-vs-exit)
- **Eis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eis-vs-exit)
- **eft** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eft-vs-exit)
- **Eri** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eri-vs-exit)
- **east** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/east-vs-exit)
- **evil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/evil-vs-exit)
- **eric** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eric-vs-exit)

## Common misspellings (5)
`eixt`, `exitt`, `exti`, `exxit`, `xeit`

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