website

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for website is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈwɛbˌsaɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #860 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for website, with forms such as "ewbsite", "wbesite", and "webbsite". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Webster", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From web + site. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is website, spelled W-E-B-S-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.