Sensex
"sensex" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sensex” is uncommon English (frequency #71,092 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,092
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stock market index of 30 well-established and financially sound companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sensex · Sensex · English
Sensex · rank #71,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,092
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seismicity
Nearest frequency peer: seismicity (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Sensex”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schnabel
Schnabel
28,913 corpus weight
- Schreiner
Schreiner
28,912 corpus weight
- Scythian
Scythian
28,911 corpus weight
- seismicity
seismicity
28,910 corpus weight
- Sensex
Sensex
28,909 corpus weight
- señorita
señorita
28,907 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Sensex” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sensex |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sensex” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Sensex is uncommon English at frequency #71,092 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A stock market index of 30 well-established and financially sound companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Sensex in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of sensitive + index. The correct English form is Sensex, spelled S-E-N-S-E-X.
Definition
- 1A stock market index of 30 well-established and financially sound companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sensex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
MUMBAI: Dalal Street investors are readying for a lower opening of the sensex on Monday as a knee-jerk reaction to RBI governor Raghuram Rajan's decision to not continue in his post after his term ends early September.
Etymology
Blend of sensitive + index.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.