# stunner

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #35,960

## Definitions
1. Anything that is stunning.
2. Anything that is stunning.
3. A 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.
4. A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
5. A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.

## Etymology
From stun + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **Sumner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stunner-vs-sumner)
- **stunted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stunner-vs-stunted)
- **stutter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stunner-vs-stutter)
- **sinner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sinner-vs-stunner)
- **stoner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stoner-vs-stunner)
- **stunned** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stunned-vs-stunner)
- **scanner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scanner-vs-stunner)
- **skinner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skinner-vs-stunner)
- **spinner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spinner-vs-stunner)
- **Steiner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/steiner-vs-stunner)
- **shunned** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shunned-vs-stunner)
- **stinger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stinger-vs-stunner)
- **spanner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spanner-vs-stunner)

## Common misspellings (9)
`sstunner`, `stnuner`, `sttunner`, `stunenr`, `stuner`, `stunnerr`, `stunnre`, `sutnner`, `tsunner`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/stunner