How to spell website

hear it/'wɛb,saɪt/nounRules and real life

What it means: A collection of connected pages on the internet.

In a sentence: We visited a fun website to learn about dinosaurs.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as web site or websit.

Same family: web, webpage, website developer, website design, website owner. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “website” comes from “web,” short for the World Wide Web, and “site,” meaning a place or location. It started as “Web site” in the early 1990s, but over time it became the single word “website” as the internet became part of everyday life.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

Try spelling it

You will hear the word and a sentence. Type it and press Enter. Then four more words from the same level, so you know where you stand.

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