out of sight

adj

"out-of-sight" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“out of sight” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Not accessible to view.

Corpus desk

Index EN-out-of-sight · out of sight · English

out of sight · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "O" 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.

Key facts for out of sight
PropertyValue
Headwordout of sight
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “out of sight” sits in English frequency

out of sight falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

out of sight is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for out of sight in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is out of sight, spelled O-U-T- -O-F- -S-I-G-H-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Not accessible to view.
  2. 2
    Not yet attainable.
  3. 3
    Superb, excellent.
  4. 4
    Very expensive.
  5. 5
    Drunk.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how out of sight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Jack's really mad at you. You'd better stay out of sight for a few days. The notice was out of sight behind the door.
  2. They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnifi…

Synonyms

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "out of sight"?
"out of sight" is spelled O-U-T- -O-F- -S-I-G-H-T.
What does "out of sight" mean?
As an adjective, "out of sight" means: Not accessible to view.
What language does "out of sight" come from?
"out of sight" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list