sexual partner
"sexual-partner" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sexual partner” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person with whom someone has sex.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sexual-partner · sexual partner · English
sexual partner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sexual partner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sexual partner” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sexual partner is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person with whom someone has sex.".
sexual partner doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is sexual partner, spelled S-E-X-U-A-L- -P-A-R-T-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person with whom someone has sex.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sexual partner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They had dozens of sexual partners before they married each other. Dance-floor romances, Ibiza flings. The Nineties, ecstatic decade!
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.