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Sunnism

noun

Sunnism is spelled S-U-N-N-I-S-M: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Sunnism means “Sunni Islam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Sunnism?

Letters7: S-U-N-N-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd 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 Sunnism?

Sunnism appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 Sunnism

  • Sunniism

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

What does Sunnism mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Sunni Islam

    In this country, Sunnism forms the majority.

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

Where does Sunnism come from?

From sunnah + -ism.

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

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