kiss of life
"kiss-of-life" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kiss of life” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kiss-of-life · kiss of life · English
kiss of life · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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 | kiss of life |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kiss of life” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kiss of life is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kiss of life, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 kiss of life, spelled K-I-S-S- -O-F- -L-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kiss of life appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The lifeguard pulled the man out of the lake and gave him the kiss of life.
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.