shuns
/ʃʌnz/
"shuns" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shuns” is uncommon English (frequency #65,499 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,499
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of shun
Corpus desk
Index EN-shuns · shuns · English
shuns · rank #65,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,499
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shrewdly
Nearest frequency peer: shrewdly (-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 “shuns”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shipbuilder
shipbuilder
34,506 corpus weight
- showboat
showboat
34,505 corpus weight
- showground
showground
34,504 corpus weight
- shrewdly
shrewdly
34,503 corpus weight
- shuns
shuns
34,502 corpus weight
- Sickles
Sickles
34,501 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shuns” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shuns |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃʌnz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shuns” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shuns is uncommon English at frequency #65,499 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʃʌnz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of shun".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shuns in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is shuns, spelled S-H-U-N-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of shun
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.