sunray

Other forms of sunray

plural

sunrays·

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 sunray

What does sunray mean?

sunray means "a ray of sunlight". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sunray?

sunray has 2 syllables and divides as sun-ray 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 sunray?

Close synonyms include sunbeam, Enceliopsis nudicaulis, sun-ray. 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 sunray a common word?

sunray 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.