seat belt
noun
seat belt is a noun meaning “A restraining belt attached to a vehicle seat and fastened around occupants in order to keep them in place and decelerate them smoothly rather than…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-A-T-B-E-L-T. The plural of seat belt is seat belts or seat-belts.
What does seat belt mean?
noun
- 1
A restraining belt attached to a vehicle seat and fastened around occupants in order to keep them in place and decelerate them smoothly rather than suddenly in an accident, mitigating the risk of injury from uncontrolled impact with injurious objects.
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of seat belt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce seat belt?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Qwertygiy-seat_belt.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of seat belt
- seat belts plural
- seatbelt
- seat-belts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with seat belt
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: seatbelt (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Seat belt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense restraining belt:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ceinture de sécurité |
| German | Sicherheitsgurt |
| Portuguese | cinto de segurança |
| Spanish | cinturón de seguridad, cinturón |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.