site
/saɪt/noun, verb
site is spelled S-I-T-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 166 times per million words in written English, the 611th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “sight vs site” about 5,400 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, site means “The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of site is sites.
How many letters and syllables are in site?
| Letters | 4: S-I-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 166 times per million words; the 611th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How common is site?
Site appears 166 times per million words in written English, the 611th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce site?
- /saɪt/
Site has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-site.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with site
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: cite, sight (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of site
- sites plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- siting participle, present
- sited participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does site mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
the site of a city or of a house
- 2
A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
a site for a church
- 3
The posture or position of a thing.
- 4
A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- 5
A website.
- 6
A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
- 7
Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
- 8
A part of the body which has been operated on.
verb
- 1
To situate or place a building or construction project.
The U.K. government is dusting off an alternative plan to site the center at a military outfit such as Porton Down.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Site in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | site, emplacement |
| German | Standort , Webseite, Website, Webpräsenz |
| Portuguese | sítio, local, lugar , site |
| Spanish | solar, sitio , sitio web |
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.
Where does site come from?
From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).