sunshade
/ˈsʌnˌʃeɪd/
"sunshade" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sunshade” is uncommon English (frequency #97,602 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,602
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Something to keep the sun off, or create shade from the sun; a parasol or awning.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sunshade · sunshade · English
sunshade · rank #97,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,602
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sunn
Nearest frequency peer: sunn (-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 “sunshade”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sukkot
Sukkot
2,405 corpus weight
- sulked
sulked
2,404 corpus weight
- sunn
sunn
2,400 corpus weight
- sunshade
sunshade
2,399 corpus weight
- Swaine
Swaine
2,395 corpus weight
- swayamsevak
swayamsevak
2,394 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sunshade” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sunshade |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌnˌʃeɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sunshade” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sunshade is uncommon English at frequency #97,602 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsʌnˌʃeɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Something to keep the sun off, or create shade from the sun; a parasol or awning.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sunshade, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English *sunschade, from Old English sunsċeadu, sunnsċeadu (“a veil, a sun-shade, a covering to keep off the sun”), equivalent to sun + shade. The correct English form is sunshade, spelled S-U-N-S-H-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Something to keep the sun off, or create shade from the sun; a parasol or awning.
Etymology
From Middle English *sunschade, from Old English sunsċeadu, sunnsċeadu (“a veil, a sun-shade, a covering to keep off the sun”), equivalent to sun + shade.
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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