# satellite

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈsætəlaɪt/ · frequency rank #4,120

## Definitions
1. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
2. A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
3. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
4. An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
5. Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
6. A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
7. A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
8. A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.

## Etymology
From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.

## Common misspellings (11)
`astellite`, `saetllite`, `satelilte`, `satelite`, `satelliet`, `satellitte`, `satelltie`, `satlelite`, `sattellite`, `ssatellite`, `staellite`

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