sunstroke
/ˈsʌnˌstɹoʊk/
"sunstroke" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sunstroke” is uncommon English (frequency #82,825 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,825
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sunstroke · sunstroke · English
sunstroke · rank #82,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,825
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH summative
Nearest frequency peer: summative (-3 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 “sunstroke”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Stroh
Stroh
17,184 corpus weight
- substituent
substituent
17,182 corpus weight
- summative
summative
17,179 corpus weight
- sunstroke
sunstroke
17,176 corpus weight
- syllogism
syllogism
17,170 corpus weight
- sysadmin
sysadmin
17,169 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sunstroke” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sunstroke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌnˌstɹoʊk/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sunstroke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sunstroke is uncommon English at frequency #82,825 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsʌnˌstɹoʊk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.".
sunstroke doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sun + stroke. The correct English form is sunstroke, spelled S-U-N-S-T-R-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sunstroke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But, however this may be, the grounds upon which I base my belief that "chill" in the one case, and "heat" in the other, is the most common exciting cause of these maladies, respectively, are furnished by the fact that malarious fevers are found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with that of the annual seasons of greatest change in the weather e…
Idiopathic non-septic periencephalitis may be produced by profound grief, protracted anxiety, especially when accompanied by great overwork, partial starvation combined with the gnawing anxiety of deep poverty, and also, it is affirmed, by sunstroke.
Etymology
From sun + stroke.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).