Plural of satellite

regular plural

The plural of satellite is satellites.

Forms of satellite

Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.
Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82
Real-time photographic data from orbiting satellites could permit geosurveillance.From the entry geosurveillance
Fair attendees experienced Michelangelo's Pieta, Walt Disney's animatronics, and NASA's latest space rockets and satellites.2024 September 13, Ruth D. Nelson, “A World's Fair Could Be Just What We Need”, in Time. From the entry atomitat
Several types of DNA satellites have been described to be associated with begomoviruses: betasatellites, alphasatellites, and deltasatellites.2023, Elvira Fiallo-Olivé, Jesús Navas-Catillo, “Molecular and Biological Characterization of a New WOrld Mon-/Bipartite…. From the entry begomovirus

noun A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
noun A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data, etc. to Earth.
noun A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.

What is the plural of satellite?: The plural of satellite is satellites.
Is satellite countable?: Satellite is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.

Adapted from Wiktionary: satellite (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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