Sunningdale
"sunningdale" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sunningdale” is uncommon English (frequency #93,202 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,202
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England, which was also partly in Surrey until 1995 (OS grid ref SU9567).
Corpus desk
Index EN-sunningdale · Sunningdale · English
Sunningdale · rank #93,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,202
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sunray
Nearest frequency peer: sunray (+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 “Sunningdale”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- studentship
studentship
6,802 corpus weight
- Sunningdale
Sunningdale
6,799 corpus weight
- sunray
sunray
6,798 corpus weight
- superstardom
superstardom
6,796 corpus weight
- supes
supes
6,795 corpus weight
- Suwannee
Suwannee
6,794 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sunningdale” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sunningdale |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sunningdale” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sunningdale is uncommon English at frequency #93,202 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England, which was also partly in Surrey until 1995 (OS grid ref SU9567).".
Zero misspellings are on record for Sunningdale in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Derived from the neighbouring village of Sunninghill in the 19th century, by substituting dale for hill. The correct English form is Sunningdale, spelled S-U-N-N-I-N-G-D-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1A large village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England, which was also partly in Surrey until 1995 (OS grid ref SU9567).
Etymology
Derived from the neighbouring village of Sunninghill in the 19th century, by substituting dale for hill.
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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