sunny
sun·ny/ˈsʌni/adjective, adverb, noun
sunny is spelled S-U-N-N-Y: 5 letters and 2 syllables (sun·ny). It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Sunny, the name). As an adjective, sunny means “Featuring a lot of sunshine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sunny?
| Letters | 5: S-U-N-N-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: sun·ny |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 sunny?
Sunny appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Sunny, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sunny?
- US /ˈsʌni/
- /ˈsʊni/
- /ˈsʌne/
Sunny has 2 syllables, split sun·ny in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sunny.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sunny
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: sonny (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: sunnies.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sunny?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sunny from its last stressed vowel (/ʌni/):
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 sunny
- sunnier comparative
- sunniest superlative
- sunnies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sunny mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Featuring a lot of sunshine.
Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
- 2
Receiving a lot of sunshine.
the sunny side of a hill
- 3
Cheerful.
a person with a sunny disposition
- 4
Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; shiny; radiant.
adverb
- 1
USsunny side up
noun
- 1
A sunfish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sunny in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense weather, day:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ensoleillé |
| German | sonnig, heiter |
| Portuguese | ensolarado, solarengo |
| Spanish | asoleado, soleado |
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 sunny come from?
From Middle English sunni, from Old English *sunniġ. Cognate with West Frisian sinnich, Low German sünnig, sonnig, Dutch zonnig, German sonnig. Equivalent to sun + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).