cold-eyed
"cold-eyed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cold-eyed” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That looks coldly or dispassionately; having a fierce or aloof mein.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cold-eyed · cold-eyed · English
cold-eyed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | cold-eyed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cold-eyed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cold-eyed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That looks coldly or dispassionately; having a fierce or aloof mein.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cold-eyed in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is cold-eyed, spelled C-O-L-D---E-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1That looks coldly or dispassionately; having a fierce or aloof mein.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cold-eyed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.
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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