catch sight of
"catch-sight-of" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“catch sight of” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - to see for a brief period; to get a glimpse of
Corpus desk
Index EN-catch-sight-of · catch sight of · English
catch sight of · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | catch sight of |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “catch sight of” in English
Rare enough to double-check
catch sight of is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "to see for a brief period; to get a glimpse of".
No misspelling variants are generated for catch sight of in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is catch sight of, spelled C-A-T-C-H- -S-I-G-H-T- -O-F.
Definition
- 1to see for a brief period; to get a glimpse of
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how catch sight of appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.
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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.