stunner
"stunner" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stunner” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #35,960 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #35,960
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Anything that is stunning.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stunner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stunner” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for stunner is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #35,960 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for stunner, with forms such as "sstunner", "stnuner", and "sttunner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Sumner", "stunted", "stutter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From stun + -er. The correct English form is stunner, spelled S-T-U-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Anything that is stunning.
- 2Anything that is stunning.
- 3A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder.
- 4A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
- 5A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.
Etymology
From stun + -er.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sstunner,stnuner,sttunner,stunenr,stuner,stunnerr,stunnre,sutnner,tsunner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stunner - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “stunner”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-U-N-N-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Sumner” - see the side-by-side comparison. stunner vs Sumner
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.