orbit
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "orbit", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "orbit" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "orbit" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
orbit is aEnglishnoun. It means: The curved path of one object around a point or another body. Pronounced /ˈɔː.bɪt/. It ranks #6,816 in English word frequency. Often confused with Ori and Ortiz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orbit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɔː.bɪt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for orbit is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɔː.bɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,816 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for orbit, with forms such as "obrit", "orbbit", and "orbitt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Ori", "Ortiz", "Orrin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English orbite, orbita, from Latin orbita (“course, track, impression, mark”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is orbit, spelled O-R-B-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
- 2The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
- 3The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
- 4The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
- 5The curved path of one object around a point or another body.
- 6A sphere of influence; an area or extent of activity, interest, or control.
- 7The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
- 8The bony cavity in the skull of a vertebrate containing the eyeball.
- 9A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
- 10The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members of a specified group of transformations that act on X.
- 11The number of hands such that each player at the table has posted the big blind once.
- 12A state of increased excitement, activity, or anger.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English orbite, orbita, from Latin orbita (“course, track, impression, mark”).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: obrit,orbbit,orbitt,orbti,oribt,orrbit,robit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orbit
Misspelling Variants of "orbit"
Frequency rank: #6,816 in English
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