transit
/ˈtɹæn.zɪt/
"transit" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“transit” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,170
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of passing over, across, or through something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-transit · transit · English
transit · rank #5,170 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,170
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tourist
Nearest frequency peer: tourist (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “transit”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- terrorists
terrorists
94,834 corpus weight
- tourist
tourist
94,832 corpus weight
- transit
transit
94,831 corpus weight
- trucks
trucks
94,830 corpus weight
- trusted
trusted
94,829 corpus weight
- vessels
vessels
94,828 corpus weight
What this shows “transit” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | transit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “transit”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around transit (IPA /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,170 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for transit, with forms such as "rtansit", "tarnsit", and "tranist". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "transmit", "trans", "trait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”). The correct English form is transit, spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-T.
Definition
- 1The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- 2The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- 3Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit
- 4The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- 5The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.
- 6A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- 7An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- 8A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how transit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.
Etymology
From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtansit
- tarnsit
- tranist
- trannsit
- transitt
- transsit
- transti
- trasnit
- trnasit
- trransit
- ttransit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of transit - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).