# sight

> English word · Noun · IPA /saɪt/ · frequency rank #2,808

## Definitions
1. The ability to see.
2. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
3. Something seen.
4. Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
5. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
6. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
7. a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
8. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
9. The instrument of seeing; the eye.
10. Mental view; opinion; judgment.

## Etymology
From Middle English siȝht, siȝt, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see + -t. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte.

## Easily confused with
- **sit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sit)
- **sign** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sign)
- **Sikh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sikh)
- **sith** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sith)
- **silt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-silt)
- **signs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-signs)
- **Singh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-singh)
- **sigma** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sigma)
- **Sikhs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sikhs)
- **Sinha** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sinha)
- **sought** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sought)
- **slight** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-slight)
- **signet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-signet)
- **sighted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sighted)
- **sleight** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-sleight)
- **site** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sight-vs-site)
- **sig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sig-vs-sight)
- **sigh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sigh-vs-sight)
- **sift** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sift-vs-sight)
- **sich** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sich-vs-sight)

## Common misspellings (8)
`isght`, `sgiht`, `sigght`, `sighht`, `sightt`, `sigth`, `sihgt`, `ssight`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sight