sundress
/ˈsʌnˌdɹɛs/
"sundress" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sundress” is uncommon English (frequency #77,246 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,246
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A typically sleeveless dress, usually a minidress, made of light, loose-fitting material for spring and summer wear.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sundress · sundress · English
sundress · rank #77,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,246
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH STX
Nearest frequency peer: STX (-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 “sundress”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stromboli
Stromboli
22,758 corpus weight
- Stroudsburg
Stroudsburg
22,757 corpus weight
- STX
STX
22,756 corpus weight
- sundress
sundress
22,755 corpus weight
- superglue
superglue
22,754 corpus weight
- Sze
Sze
22,752 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sundress” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sundress |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌnˌdɹɛs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sundress” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sundress is uncommon English at frequency #77,246 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsʌnˌdɹɛs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A typically sleeveless dress, usually a minidress, made of light, loose-fitting material for spring and summer wear.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sundress in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sun + dress. The correct English form is sundress, spelled S-U-N-D-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1A typically sleeveless dress, usually a minidress, made of light, loose-fitting material for spring and summer wear.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sundress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I'm in his favorite sundress, watching me get undressed
The brand, in its collaboration with Target, provoked ire—proving that, in the right circumstances, even sundresses can be part of the culture wars.
Etymology
From sun + dress.
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); 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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