# skate

> English word · Noun · IPA /skeɪt/ · frequency rank #10,611

## Definitions
1. A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
2. Ellipsis of ice skate.
3. Ellipsis of roller skate.
4. The act of skateboarding
5. The act of roller skating or ice skating
6. A makeshift handcar.

## Etymology
Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).

## Easily confused with
- **stat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-stat)
- **SWAT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-swat)
- **Skye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-skye)
- **spat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-spat)
- **skit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-skit)
- **state** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-state)
- **space** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-space)
- **stage** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-stage)
- **stats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-stats)
- **slave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-slave)
- **spare** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-spare)
- **snake** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-snake)
- **suite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-suite)
- **stake** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-stake)
- **spite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-spite)
- **stare** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-stare)
- **slate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-slate)
- **skype** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-skype)
- **stale** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-stale)
- **spade** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skate-vs-spade)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ksate`, `sakte`, `skaet`, `skatte`, `skkate`, `sktae`, `sskate`

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