satellite

/\sa.te.lit\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,923

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

satellite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet naturel ou artificiel qui orbite autour d’une planète. Pronounced \sa.te.lit\. It ranks #5,923 in French word frequency. Often confused with satellites.

Key facts for satellite
PropertyValue
Headwordsatellite
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.te.lit\
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,923
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of satellite in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for satellite is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.te.lit\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,923 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for satellite, with forms such as "astellite", "saetllite", and "satelilte". 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, "satellites", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is satellite, spelled S-A-T-E-L-L-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objet naturel ou artificiel qui orbite autour d’une planète.
  2. 2
    Objet naturel ou artificiel animé d’un mouvement quasi périodique autour d’un corps de masse prépondérante, ce mouvement étant principalement déterminé par le champ de gravité de ce dernier.
  3. 3
    Pignon satellite ; élément d’un différentiel automobile.
  4. 4
    Homme armé qui est aux gages et à la suite d’un autre dont il exécute les volontés.
  5. 5
    Nom donné à toutes sortes de choses se trouvant à la périphérie d’une autre, ou sous son influence.
  6. 6
    Nom donné à toutes sortes de choses se trouvant à la périphérie d’une autre, ou sous son influence.
  7. 7
    Nom donné à toutes sortes de choses se trouvant à la périphérie d’une autre, ou sous son influence.
  8. 8
    Nom donné à toutes sortes de choses se trouvant à la périphérie d’une autre, ou sous son influence.
  9. 9
    Nom donné à toutes sortes de choses se trouvant à la périphérie d’une autre, ou sous son influence.
  10. 10
    Nom donné à toutes sortes de choses se trouvant à la périphérie d’une autre, ou sous son influence.
  11. 11
    Nom donné à toutes sortes de choses se trouvant à la périphérie d’une autre, ou sous son influence.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: astellite,saetllite,satelilte,satelite,satelliet,satellitte,satelltie,satlelite,sattellite,ssatellite,staellite

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for satellite

Misspelling Variants of "satellite"

astellite9saetllite9satelilte9satelite8satelliet9satellitte10satelltie9satlelite9
Misspelling Variants of "satellite"

Frequency rank: #5,923 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "satellite"?
"satellite" is spelled S-A-T-E-L-L-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.te.lit\.
What does "satellite" mean?
As a noun, "satellite" means: Objet naturel ou artificiel qui orbite autour d’une planète.
What words are commonly confused with "satellite"?
"satellite" is commonly confused with "satellites". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "satellite"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "satellite" is \sa.te.lit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "satellite" come from?
"satellite" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.