Whitsunday
Whit·sun·day/wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/noun
Whitsunday is spelled W-H-I-T-S-U-N-D-A-Y: 10 letters and 3 syllables (Whit·sun·day). It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Whitsunday means “The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Whitsunday is Whitsundays.
How many letters and syllables are in Whitsunday?
| Letters | 10: W-H-I-T-S-U-N-D-A-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: Whit·sun·day |
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 71,529th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is Whitsunday?
Whitsunday appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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 Whitsunday?
- UK /wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/
- UK /ʍ-/
- US /wɪtˈsʌndeɪ/
Whitsunday has 3 syllables, split Whit·sun·day in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Whitsunday.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with Whitsunday?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as Whitsunday from its last stressed vowel (/ʌndeɪ/):
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 Whitsunday
- Whitsundays plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does Whitsunday mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.
Holonyms: Pentecost (season), Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit
- 2
ScotlandA quarter day falling on 15th May.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Whitsunday in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Pentecôte |
| German | Pfingstsonntag, Pfingsten, Pfingstfest, Pfingsttag |
| Portuguese | Pentecostes, Pentecoste |
| Spanish | Pentecostés |
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 Whitsunday come from?
Inherited from Middle English Whitsonday, from whit (“white”) + Sonday (“Sunday”), from Old English hwīt sunnandæg, probably from the white clothes worn by newly baptized Christians as Pentecost was a traditional date of baptism in early medieval England. Doublet of White Sunday.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).