blink of an eye
"blink-of-an-eye" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blink of an eye” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A moment (a very short period of time).
Corpus desk
Index EN-blink-of-an-eye · blink of an eye · English
blink of an eye · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blink of an eye |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blink of an eye” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blink of an eye is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A moment (a very short period of time).".
No misspelling variants are generated for blink of an eye in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is blink of an eye, spelled B-L-I-N-K- -O-F- -A-N- -E-Y-E.
Definition
- 1A moment (a very short period of time).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blink of an eye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Just a blink of an eye later, he was gone.
Mother, remember the blink of an eye / When I breathed through your body?
This word in other languages
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.