sunburned
/ˈsʌn.bɝnd/
"sunburned" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sunburned” is uncommon English (frequency #57,746 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,746
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative form of sunburnt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sunburned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsʌn.bɝnd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sunburned” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sunburned is uncommon English at frequency #57,746 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsʌn.bɝnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of sunburnt.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sunburned, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is sunburned, spelled S-U-N-B-U-R-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of sunburnt.
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 “sunburned”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-N-B-U-R-N-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.