sooner

Other forms of sooner

plural

sooners·

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 sooner

What does sooner mean?

sooner means "comparatives of `soon' or `early'". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sooner?

sooner has 2 syllables: soo-ner. The stress falls on "soo". In IPA it is /ˈsunɚ/.

What is another word for sooner?

Close synonyms include earlier, preferably, rather, Oklahoman. 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 sooner a common word?

sooner is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.