website
/ˈwɛb(ˌ)saɪt/noun
website is spelled W-E-B-S-I-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is webiste: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 244 of all searches for the word. Website is a noun meaning “A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base…”. The plural of website is websites.
How many letters and syllables are in website?
| Letters | 7: W-E-B-S-I-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 123 times per million words; the 851st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, webiste, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
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 do you spell website?
Website is spelled W-E-B-S-I-T-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 190 of the searches for website in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is website?
Website appears 123 times per million words in written English, the 851st 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 website?
- /ˈwɛb(ˌ)saɪt/
Website has 2 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-website.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-web_site.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with website
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: web-site (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of website
- websites plural
- web site
- web-site
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does website mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.
Meronym: webpage
noun
- 1
datedrareAlternative letter-case form of website.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Website in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a collection of pages on the World Wide Web:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | site web, site, site Web, site Internet |
| German | Website, Webangebot, Webauftritt, Internetauftritt, Webpräsenz, Internetpräsenz |
| Portuguese | sítio, site, website, web site, sítio web, saite |
| Spanish | sitio web, website, página web, 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 website come from?
From web + site.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).