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morning

morn·ing/ˈmoɹnɪŋ/noun, interjection

morning is spelled M-O-R-N-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (morn·ing). It appears 214 times per million words in written English, the 471st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, morning means “The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of morning is mornings.

How many letters and syllables are in morning?

Letters7: M-O-R-N-I-N-G
Syllables2: morn·ing
In writing214 times per million words; the 471st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

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 morning?

Morning appears 214 times per million words in written English, the 471st 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 morning?

  • UK /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
  • British /ˈmoːnɪŋ/
  • US /ˈmoɹnɪŋ/

Morning has 2 syllables, split morn·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-morning.ogg, En-us-morning.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with morning

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

morning vs mourning0 B

Sounds like: mourning (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 morning?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as morning from its last stressed vowel (/oɹnɪŋ/):

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 morning

  • mornings plural

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

What does morning mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon.

    I'll see you tomorrow morning.

  2. 2

    The early part of anything.

  3. 3

    obsoleteThat part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon).

    We breakfasted before nine, and do not dine till half-past six on the occasion, so I hope we three shall have a long morning enough.

  4. 4

    ScotlandThe first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught.

interjection

  1. 1

    Ellipsis of good morning.

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

How do you abbreviate morning?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of morning: mrng.

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

Morning in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmatin, matinée, avant-midi (part of the day between dawn and midday)
GermanMorgen, Vormittag, Murg'n, Morgn (Wienerisch) (part of the day between dawn and midday)
Portuguesemanhã (part of the day between dawn and midday), madrugada (the part of the day after midnight and before…)
Spanishmañana, matina, matino (part of the day between dawn and midday), madrugada, antelucano (the part of the day after midnight and before…)

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 morning come from?

From Middle English morwenynge, from morwen + -ynge. By surface analysis, morn + -ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).

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

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