birthday suit
"birthday-suit" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“birthday suit” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nakedness, unclothed skin; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-birthday-suit · birthday suit · English
birthday suit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | birthday suit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “birthday suit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
birthday suit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for birthday suit, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the lack of clothes worn when one is born. The correct English form is birthday suit, spelled B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y- -S-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Nakedness, unclothed skin; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing.
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see birthday, suit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how birthday suit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit.
Nature, the universal tailor, provides for every other animal a birthday suit of clothes which is to outlast his life; but man, though so peculiarly sensitive to the assaults of the elements, is ushered into this nether sphere without any covering, in order that he may be compelled to exert his faculties, and become his own tailor, and thereby his own civ…
Etymology
From the lack of clothes worn when one is born.
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.