love at first sight
"love-at-first-sight" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“love at first sight” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - an instantaneous attraction
| 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) |
Where “love at first sight” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for love at first sight is 19 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: "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
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 “love at first sight”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-O-V-E- -A-T- -F-I-R-S-T- -S-I-G-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.