nighttime

Other forms of nighttime

plural

nighttimes·

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 nighttime

What does nighttime mean?

nighttime means "the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside".

How many syllables are in nighttime?

nighttime has 2 syllables: night-time. The stress falls on "night". In IPA it is /ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm/.

What is another word for nighttime?

Close synonyms include night, dark. 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 nighttime a common word?

nighttime is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 nighttime?

30 words rhyme with nighttime. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.