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sunbather

noun

sunbather is spelled S-U-N-B-A-T-H-E-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sunbather means “A person who basks in the sun to get a tan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sunbather is sunbathers.

How many letters and syllables are in sunbather?

Letters9: S-U-N-B-A-T-H-E-R
In writingabout once in every 33 million words; the 176,009th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is sunbather?

Sunbather appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of sunbather

  • sunbathers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sunbather mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A person who basks in the sun to get a tan.

    I went to the beach to look at the sunbathers, at least some of whom went there to be looked at while they worked on their tans.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Sunbather in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense person who basks in the sun to get a tan:

LanguageWords
Frenchbronzeur, bronzeuse
GermanSonnenbader, Sonnenbaderin

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does sunbather come from?

From sunbathe + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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