# noon

> English word · Noun · IPA /nuːn/ · frequency rank #5,988

## Definitions
1. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
2. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
4. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
5. The highest point; culmination.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **not** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-not)
- **now** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-now)
- **nor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nor)
- **nov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nov)
- **nun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nun)
- **nos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nos)
- **nox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nox)
- **NWO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nwo)
- **note** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-note)
- **nose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nose)
- **nope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nope)
- **norm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-norm)
- **nova** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nova)
- **noun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-noun)
- **Nora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nora)
- **Nord** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nord)
- **nous** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nous)
- **Noor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-noor)
- **nosy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nosy)
- **nooo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/noon-vs-nooo)

## Common misspellings (4)
`nnoon`, `nono`, `noonn`, `onon`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/noon