come to think of it
"come-to-think-of-it" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“come to think of it” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - By the way; now that I think about it; indicates something brought to mind.
Corpus desk
Index EN-come-to-think-of-it · come to think of it · English
come to think of it · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | come to think of it |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “come to think of it” in English
Rare enough to double-check
come to think of it is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "By the way; now that I think about it; indicates something brought to mind.".
Zero misspellings are on record for come to think of it in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is come to think of it, spelled C-O-M-E- -T-O- -T-H-I-N-K- -O-F- -I-T.
Definition
- 1By the way; now that I think about it; indicates something brought to mind.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how come to think of it appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Come to think of it, it's curious that nobody was there.
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.