love at first sight
"love-at-first-sight" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“love at first sight” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - an instantaneous attraction
Corpus desk
Index EN-love-at-first-sight · love at first sight · English
love at first sight · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 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 | love at first sight |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “love at first sight” in English
Rare enough to double-check
love at first sight is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "an instantaneous attraction".
Zero misspellings are on record for love at first sight in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is love at first sight, spelled L-O-V-E- -A-T- -F-I-R-S-T- -S-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1an instantaneous attraction
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how love at first sight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For the young striker and the fans, it was love at first sight.
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.