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moonset

noun

moonset is spelled M-O-O-N-S-E-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, moonset means “The setting of the moon below the horizon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of moonset is moonsets.

How many letters and syllables are in moonset?

Letters7: M-O-O-N-S-E-T
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 165,739th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is moonset?

Moonset appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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).

Forms of moonset

  • moonsets plural
  • moon-set
  • moon set

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does moonset mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The setting of the moon below the horizon.

    Coordinate term: sunset

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Moonset in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the setting of the moon below the horizon:

LanguageWords
Frenchcoucher de lune
GermanMonduntergang
Spanishpuesta de la luna

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 moonset come from?

From moon + set.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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