Sunday driver
"sunday-driver" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sunday driver” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who drives slowly or inexpertly, as for leisure or sightseeing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sunday-driver · Sunday driver · English
Sunday driver · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sunday driver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sunday driver” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sunday driver is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Sunday driver doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Sunday + driver, Sunday being a popular day for leisure driving. The correct English form is Sunday driver, spelled S-U-N-D-A-Y- -D-R-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who drives slowly or inexpertly, as for leisure or sightseeing.
- 2One who drives infrequently, and often poorly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sunday driver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip.
Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside.
Etymology
From Sunday + driver, Sunday being a popular day for leisure driving.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.