leave someone cold
"leave-someone-cold" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leave someone cold” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To fail to impress or make an emotional connection with someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leave-someone-cold · leave someone cold · English
leave someone cold · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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 | leave someone cold |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “leave someone cold” in English
Rare enough to double-check
leave someone cold is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To fail to impress or make an emotional connection with someone.".
leave someone cold doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is leave someone cold, spelled L-E-A-V-E- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E- -C-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1To fail to impress or make an emotional connection with someone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leave someone cold appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So I tell her just a little, how an entire date with Ethan can leave me cold, but one single glance from Gabriel can set my blood on fire.
Interpersonal issues left her cold, but give her a computer and a problem to solve ? Pure heaven.
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.