noon
/nun/noun, verb
noon is spelled N-O-O-N: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, noon means “The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of noon is noons.
How many letters and syllables are in noon?
| Letters | 4: N-O-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is noon?
Noon appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th 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 noon?
- UK /nuːn/
- US /nun/
- /nʉn/
Noon has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-noon.ogg, En-us-noon.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with noon?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as noon from its last stressed vowel (/un/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nono.
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 noon
- noons plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- nooning participle, present
- nooned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does noon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
- 2
The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
- 3
archaicThe corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
- 4
obsoleteThe ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
- 5
The highest point; culmination.
- 6
The letter ن in the Arabic script.
verb
- 1
To relax or sleep around midday.
noun
- 1
An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
- 2
The language of these people.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate noon?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of noon: NN.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Noon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense midday:
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 noon come from?
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).