a sheet in the wind's eye
"a-sheet-in-the-wind-s-eye" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“a sheet in the wind's eye” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Drunk.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | a sheet in the wind's eye |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “a sheet in the wind's eye” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for a sheet in the wind's eye is 25 letters long, classified as an adjective. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Drunk.".
Zero misspellings are on record for a sheet in the wind's eye in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: See three sheets to the wind. The correct English form is a sheet in the wind's eye, spelled A- -S-H-E-E-T- -I-N- -T-H-E- -W-I-N-D-'-S- -E-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Drunk.
Etymology
See three sheets to the wind.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A- -S-H-E-E-T- -I-N- -T-H-E- -W-I-N-D-'-S- -E-Y-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.