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sunkissed

adjective

sunkissed is spelled S-U-N-K-I-S-S-E-D: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, sunkissed means “Sunny (exposed to a high amount of sunlight)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in sunkissed?

Letters9: S-U-N-K-I-S-S-E-D
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is sunkissed?

Sunkissed appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of sunkissed

  • more sunkissed comparative
  • most sunkissed superlative
  • sun-kissed

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sunkissed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Sunny (exposed to a high amount of sunlight).

  2. 2

    Rendered warm or brown due to exposure from the sun.

  3. 3

    Having an attractive appearance from recent sun exposure, i.e. a slight tan, often a slight sunburn, and a radiant glow.

  4. 4

    derogatoryoffensiveOf black descent.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Sunkissed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense tanned:

LanguageWords
Spanishbronceado, bañado por el sol

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does sunkissed come from?

From sun + kissed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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