equinox

Other forms of equinox

plural

equinoxes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about equinox

What does equinox mean?

equinox means "either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in equinox?

equinox has 3 syllables: eq-ui-nox. The stress falls on "eq". In IPA it is /ˈikwəˌnɑks/.

What is another word for equinox?

Close synonyms include equinoctial point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is equinox a common word?

equinox is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with equinox?

1 word rhymes with equinox. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.