sunscreen
"sunscreen" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sunscreen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,981
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A topical substance formulated to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting or scattering ultraviolet rays.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sunscreen · sunscreen · English
sunscreen · rank #19,981 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,981
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sudanese
Nearest frequency peer: Sudanese (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “sunscreen”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sporadic
sporadic
80,023 corpus weight
- stationery
stationery
80,022 corpus weight
- Sudanese
Sudanese
80,021 corpus weight
- sunscreen
sunscreen
80,020 corpus weight
- Sykes
Sykes
80,019 corpus weight
- tau
tau
80,018 corpus weight
What this shows “sunscreen” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sunscreen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sunscreen”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sunscreen, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,981 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A topical substance formulated to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting or scattering ultraviolet rays.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sunscreen, with forms such as "snuscreen", "ssunscreen", and "suncsreen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sun + screen. The correct English form is sunscreen, spelled S-U-N-S-C-R-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1A topical substance formulated to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting or scattering ultraviolet rays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sunscreen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back. "Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy, unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.
Chemical ingredients — such as avobenzone, oxybenzone and homosalate — absorb the UV rays. Both types of sunscreen can degrade or wash off over time, so it’s important to reapply every two hours, and more frequently if you’re swimming or sweating.
Etymology
From sun + screen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- snuscreen
- ssunscreen
- suncsreen
- sunnscreen
- sunsccreen
- sunsceren
- sunscreenn
- sunscren
- sunscrene
- sunscrreen
- sunsrceen
- sunsscreen
- susncreen
- usnscreen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sunscreen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).