wide-eyed
"wide-eyed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wide-eyed” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Astonished or surprised.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wide-eyed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wide-eyed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wide-eyed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for wide-eyed in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is wide-eyed, spelled W-I-D-E---E-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1Astonished or surprised.
- 2Naive; innocent; like a baby.
- 3Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.
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 “wide-eyed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-D-E---E-Y-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.