sunni

Other forms of sunni

plural

sunnis·

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 sunni

What does sunni mean?

sunni means "a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sunni?

sunni has 2 syllables: sun-ni. The stress falls on "sun". In IPA it is /ˈsuni/.

What is another word for sunni?

Close synonyms include Sunnite, Sunni Muslim, Sunni Islam. 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 sunni a common word?

sunni 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.