at first sight
"at-first-sight" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“at first sight” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a prep_phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Superficially, without a full inspection.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | at first sight |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Prep_phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “at first sight” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for at first sight is 14 letters long, classified as a prep_phrase. 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: "Superficially, without a full inspection.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for at first sight in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is at first sight, spelled A-T- -F-I-R-S-T- -S-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Superficially, without a full inspection.
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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Using “at first sight”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-T- -F-I-R-S-T- -S-I-G-H-T - 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.