sundown
The verdict
“sundown” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - coucher du soleil, tombée du jour, crépuscule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sundown · sundown · French
sundown · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sundown |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sundown is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "coucher du soleil, tombée du jour, crépuscule.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sundown, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sundown, spelled S-U-N-D-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1coucher du soleil, tombée du jour, crépuscule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sundown appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over, and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple.
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.