sleepwalker
"sleepwalker" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sleepwalker” is uncommon English (frequency #77,206 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,206
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sleepwalker · sleepwalker · English
sleepwalker · rank #77,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,206
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SLD
Nearest frequency peer: SLD (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “sleepwalker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- slants
slants
22,798 corpus weight
- slavishly
slavishly
22,797 corpus weight
- SLD
SLD
22,796 corpus weight
- sleepwalker
sleepwalker
22,795 corpus weight
- sleuths
sleuths
22,794 corpus weight
- slobbering
slobbering
22,793 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sleepwalker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sleepwalker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sleepwalker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sleepwalker is uncommon English at frequency #77,206 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for sleepwalker in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sleep + walker or sleepwalk + -er. The correct English form is sleepwalker, spelled S-L-E-E-P-W-A-L-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep.
- 2One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep; someone in a hypnotic trance.
- 3A person from whom a voodoo practitioner (a bocor) has taken over control of their mind, making them a zombie who must do the bocor's bidding.
- 4One who goes though life in a state of obliviousness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sleepwalker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
Ashley looked dull as a sleepwalker and, as he came to her and put his hand upon her arm, he spoke like a sleepwalker.
Etymology
From sleep + walker or sleepwalk + -er.
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).