love interest
/ˈlʌv ˈɪntɹɪst/
"love-interest" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“love interest” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who is of interest as a (potential) partner in love.
Corpus desk
Index EN-love-interest · love interest · English
love interest · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 interest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlʌv ˈɪntɹɪst/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “love interest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
love interest is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlʌv ˈɪntɹɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
love interest has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is love interest, spelled L-O-V-E- -I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1One who is of interest as a (potential) partner in love.
- 2A romantic relationship; a romance.
- 3A romantic relationship; a romance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how love interest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Many people are involved in relationships in which they do not know how their love interest feels about them. […] They may also fear knowing the truth, which may be that their love interest isn't truly interested enough in them to make a commitment to the relationship.
Items from the "Love Styles" scale (Grote & Frieze, 1994) and the Hatfield and Rapson "Passionate Love" scale (Hatfield & Sprecher, 1986) were used to assess the type of love felt for the other person. One love style measured was eros, or passionate love (Lee, 1976). […] Items were: "I was physically attracted to my love interest"; "I felt we had the righ…
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.