earlyish

1. 1.

   being somewhat early

   “at an earlyish hour”

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Questions about earlyish

What does earlyish mean?

earlyish means "being somewhat early".

How many syllables are in earlyish?

earlyish has 3 syllables and divides as e-ar-lyish under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is earlyish a common word?

earlyish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.