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Sunday

Sun·day/ˈsʌn.deɪ/noun, verb, adverb

Sunday is spelled S-U-N-D-A-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables (Sun·day). It appears 83 times per million words in written English, the 1,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Sunday means “The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Sunday is Sundays.

How many letters and syllables are in Sunday?

Letters6: S-U-N-D-A-Y
Syllables2: Sun·day
In writing83 times per million words; the 1,272nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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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 Sunday?

Sunday appears 83 times per million words in written English, the 1,272nd 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 Sunday?

  • /ˈsʌn.deɪ/
  • /ˈsʌn.di/
  • /ˈsʊn.deɪ/

Sunday has 2 syllables, split Sun·day in writing.

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

Words people confuse with Sunday

Sounds like: sundae (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of Sunday

  • Sundays plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • Sundaying participle, present
  • Sundayed participle, past

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

What does Sunday mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.

  2. 2

    informalA newspaper published on Sunday.

  3. 3

    informalA comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.

  4. 4

    informalDescribes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.

  5. 5

    informalDescribes something particularly fine and elegant, particularly something that could be worn to or used at church.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).

adverb

  1. 1

    CanadaUSinformalOn Sunday.

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

Sunday in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdimanche (day of the week), presse dominicale (newspaper)
GermanSonntag (day of the week), sonntags (on Sunday)
Portuguesedomingo (day of the week), no domingo, domingueiro, dominical (on Sunday)
Spanishdomingo (day of the week)

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 Sunday come from?

From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Sunnōn dag (literally “day of the Sun”), equivalent to sun + day, as a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 C.E. Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag, Yiddish זונטיק (zuntik).

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

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