Aunt Sally
"aunt-sally" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aunt Sally” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aunt-sally · Aunt Sally · English
Aunt Sally · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" 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 | Aunt Sally |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Aunt Sally” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Aunt Sally is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Aunt Sally in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Apparently after My Old Aunt Sally, the title of a blackface minstrel song written by Dan Emmett in 1843. The correct English form is Aunt Sally, spelled A-U-N-T- -S-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman.
- 2A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aunt Sally appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There were some swings, and a hooting-tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and Aunt Sallies.
Mrs. Morel did not like the wakes. There were two sets of horses, one going by steam, one pulled round by a pony; three organs were grinding, and there came odd cracks of pistol-shots, fearful screeching of the cocoanut man's rattle, shouts of the Aunt Sally man, screeches from the peep-show lady.
Etymology
Apparently after My Old Aunt Sally, the title of a blackface minstrel song written by Dan Emmett in 1843.
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.