kiss of life
"kiss-of-life" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kiss of life” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kiss of life |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kiss of life” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for kiss of life is 12 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “kiss of life”
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- The one correct English spelling is K-I-S-S- -O-F- -L-I-F-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.