lunar
lun·ar/ˈlunɚ/adjective, noun
lunar is spelled L-U-N-A-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables (lun·ar). It appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, lunar means “Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in lunar?
| Letters | 5: L-U-N-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: lun·ar |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lunar?
Lunar appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce lunar?
- UK /ˈluːnə/
- British /ˈlʉwnə/
- US /ˈlunɚ/
Lunar has 2 syllables, split lun·ar in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-lunar.ogg, En-au-luna.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with lunar
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: luna (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with lunar?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as lunar from its last stressed vowel (/unəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ulnar.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of lunar
- lunars plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lunar mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon).
lunar observations a lunar eclipse
- 2
Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.
- 3
Extremely high.
- 4
(Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.
- 5
obsoleteOf or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
- 6
Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.
noun
- 1
The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon.
- 2
An observation of a lunar distance (“the angle between the Moon and another celestial body”), especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea.
adjective
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of lunar (“pertaining to Luna, the moon of Terra”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lunar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lunar come from?
From Middle English lunar (“shaped like the crescent moon”), from Latin lūnāris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”) (possibly through Middle French lunaire (modern French lunaire (“lunar”)), from lūna (“the Moon; crescent shape”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”)) + -is (suffix forming adjectives).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).