sunray
"sunray" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sunray” is uncommon English (frequency #93,203 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,203
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A beam of sunlight; a sunbeam.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sunray · sunray · English
sunray · rank #93,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,203
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sunningdale
Nearest frequency peer: Sunningdale (-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 “sunray”
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 “sunray” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sunray |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sunray” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sunray is uncommon English at frequency #93,203 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sunray, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sun + ray. The correct English form is sunray, spelled S-U-N-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A beam of sunlight; a sunbeam.
- 2A beam of artificial light, especially one rich in ultraviolet.
- 3A plant, Enceliopsis nudicaulis, that has a broad, yellow flower head.
- 4Any of various Australian plants of the genus Rhodanthe.
Etymology
From sun + ray.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).