# slot

> English word · Noun · IPA /slɒt/ · frequency rank #6,184

## Definitions
1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
2. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
3. Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
4. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
5. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
6. The vagina.
7. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
8. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
9. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
10. The barrel or tube of a wave.
11. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
12. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
13. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
14. The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
15. A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.

## Etymology
From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

## Easily confused with
- **so** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-so)
- **son** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-son)
- **sox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sox)
- **sol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sol)
- **soy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-soy)
- **sly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sly)
- **sow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sow)
- **SOS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sos)
- **SOB** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sob)
- **sod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sod)
- **som** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-som)
- **SLR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-slr)
- **soe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-soe)
- **SMT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-smt)
- **sop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sop)
- **soi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-soi)
- **SoA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-soa)
- **sou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sou)
- **sor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sor)
- **sot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slot-vs-sot)

## Common misspellings (5)
`sllot`, `slott`, `slto`, `solt`, `sslot`

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