sunburned
/ˈsʌn.bɝnd/
"sunburned" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sunburned” is uncommon English (frequency #57,746 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,746
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of sunburnt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sunburned · sunburned · English
sunburned · rank #57,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,746
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH suet
Nearest frequency peer: suet (-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 “sunburned”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Streatham
Streatham
42,260 corpus weight
- sudo
sudo
42,257 corpus weight
- suet
suet
42,256 corpus weight
- sunburned
sunburned
42,255 corpus weight
- supremo
supremo
42,254 corpus weight
- swum
swum
42,249 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sunburned” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “sunburned” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sunburned is uncommon English at frequency #57,746 among 6,566 “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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