sweatsuit

noun

"sweatsuit" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sweatsuit” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A two-piece garment worn during exercise.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sweatsuit · sweatsuit · English

sweatsuit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for sweatsuit
PropertyValue
Headwordsweatsuit
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sweatsuit” in English

sweatsuitranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sweatsuit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A two-piece garment worn during exercise.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sweatsuit in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From sweat + suit. The correct English form is sweatsuit, spelled S-W-E-A-T-S-U-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    A two-piece garment worn during exercise.

Etymology

From sweat + suit.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sweatsuit"?
"sweatsuit" is spelled S-W-E-A-T-S-U-I-T.
What does "sweatsuit" mean?
As a noun, "sweatsuit" means: A two-piece garment worn during exercise.
What is the origin of the word "sweatsuit"?
From sweat + suit. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list