suntan

Other forms of suntan

plural

suntans·

past tense

suntanned·

present participle

suntanning·

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 suntan

What does suntan mean?

suntan means "a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suntan?

suntan has 2 syllables: sun-tan. The stress falls on "sun". In IPA it is /ˈsʌnˌtæn/.

What is another word for suntan?

Close synonyms include tan, sunburn, burn. 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 suntan a common word?

suntan 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.

What rhymes with suntan?

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