stressor
"stressor" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stressor” is uncommon English (frequency #59,051 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,051
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stressor · stressor · English
stressor · rank #59,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,051
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stratus
Nearest frequency peer: stratus (-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 “stressor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Storrs
Storrs
40,953 corpus weight
- strappy
strappy
40,952 corpus weight
- stratus
stratus
40,951 corpus weight
- stressor
stressor
40,950 corpus weight
- striatum
striatum
40,949 corpus weight
- stromal
stromal
40,947 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stressor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stressor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stressor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stressor is uncommon English at frequency #59,051 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stressor, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From stress + -or. The correct English form is stressor, spelled S-T-R-E-S-S-O-R.
Definition
- 1An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stressor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor.
These paradoxical pleasures […] are acquired by controlling one's exposure to the stressor in gradually increasing doses.
Etymology
From stress + -or.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).