Meanings
nounsight word (plural sight words)
plural sight words
- educationA word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.
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Aside from the handful of words directly taught by teachers, every sight word was once not a sight word; at least once its identity had to be figured out through some combination of decoding and context skills.
2000, Nancy C. Lewkowicz, “On the Question of Teaching Decoding Skills to Older Students”, in Struggling Adolescent Readers, →ISBN, page 191
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sight word. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sight%20word
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“sight word.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sight%20word. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sight word,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sight%20word.
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