site
/saɪt/
"site" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“site” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #613
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
Corpus desk
Index EN-site · site · English
site · rank #613 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #613
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shot
Nearest frequency peer: shot (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “site”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- project
project
99,391 corpus weight
- sex
sex
99,390 corpus weight
- shot
shot
99,389 corpus weight
- site
site
99,388 corpus weight
- strong
strong
99,387 corpus weight
- you'll
you'll
99,386 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “site” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | site |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /saɪt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “site” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around site (IPA /saɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #613 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for site, with forms such as "iste", "siet", and "sitte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "six", "sue", "STD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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. The correct English form is site, spelled S-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
- 2A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
- 3The posture or position of a thing.
- 4A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- 5A website.
- 6A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
- 7Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
- 8A part of the body which has been operated on.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how site appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the site of a city or of a house
1613, Richard Moore, Silvester Jourdain, William Crashaw, William Castell, A Plaine Description of the Barmvdas, Now Called Sommer Ilands: With the manner of their discouerie anno 1609...[full title extends to 77 words], W. Welby, p .8, A more full and exact description of the Countrie, and Narration of the nature, site, and commodities, together with a t…
Etymology
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iste
- siet
- sitte
- ssite
- stie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of site - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "site", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.