sunup

Other forms of sunup

plural

sunups·

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 sunup

What does sunup mean?

sunup means "the first light of day".

How many syllables are in sunup?

sunup has 2 syllables: sun-up. The stress falls on "sun". In IPA it is /ˈsʌnəp/.

What is another word for sunup?

Close synonyms include dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light. 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 sunup a common word?

sunup 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.