letter of intent
"letter-of-intent" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“letter of intent” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A legal document outlining one or more agreements between two or more parties before the actual agreements are finalized
Corpus desk
Index EN-letter-of-intent · letter of intent · English
letter of intent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | letter of intent |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “letter of intent” in English
Rare enough to double-check
letter of intent is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A legal document outlining one or more agreements between two or more parties before the actual agreements are finalized".
letter of intent has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is letter of intent, spelled L-E-T-T-E-R- -O-F- -I-N-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1A legal document outlining one or more agreements between two or more parties before the actual agreements are finalized
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how letter of intent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before the negotiation and due diligence started, we agreed to sign a letter of intent.
Synonyms
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.