nightwear

Questions about nightwear

What does nightwear mean?

nightwear means "garments designed to be worn in bed".

How many syllables are in nightwear?

nightwear has 3 syllables and divides as nigh-twe-ar 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.

What is another word for nightwear?

Close synonyms include sleepwear, nightclothes. 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 nightwear a common word?

nightwear 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.