sundae
/ˈsʌn.deɪ/
"sundae" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sundae” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,122
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sundae · sundae · English
sundae · rank #39,122 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,122
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Suleiman
Nearest frequency peer: Suleiman (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “sundae”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- suckling
suckling
60,882 corpus weight
- sucrose
sucrose
60,881 corpus weight
- Suleiman
Suleiman
60,880 corpus weight
- sundae
sundae
60,879 corpus weight
- sundry
sundry
60,878 corpus weight
- supercomput…
supercomputer
60,877 corpus weight
What this shows “sundae” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | sundae |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌn.deɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sundae”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sundae (IPA /ˈsʌn.deɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,122 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sundae, with forms such as "snudae", "ssundae", and "sudnae". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Sunday", "sundry", "sunnah", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Modification of Sunday. The correct English form is sundae, spelled S-U-N-D-A-E.
Definition
- 1A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sundae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dine-and-dashed for an ice cream sundae. I did it two or three times a month. Kept it to a hot fudge sundae—never real food or anything like that.
Etymology
Modification of Sunday.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- snudae
- ssundae
- sudnae
- sunade
- sunddae
- sundea
- sunndae
- usndae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sundae - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sundae", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).