About The Word “Moon”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “moon”, including spelling, parts of speech, “moon” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “moon”

Moon is spelled m-o-o-n and has 4 letters.


How to pronounce “moon”

IPA pronunciation: /muːn/

Phonetic pronunciation: mewn


How many vowels and consonants in “moon”

The word “moon” has 2 consonants and 2 vowels.


How many syllables in “moon”?

There is 1 syllable in the word “moon”.


What type of word is “moon”?

The word "moon" can be a noun and verb.

Meaning of the word “moon”

The moon is a natural satellite that orbits a planet, such as Earth's Moon, which is the fifth largest in our solar system and influences tides and various natural phenomena. Additionally, "moon" can also refer to a similar celestial body orbiting another planet, like Jupiter's Galilean moons.

Origin of the word “moon”

The word 'moon' has its origins in the Old English word 'mōna', which is derived from the Proto-Germanic '*mēnô', ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root '*mēns-', meaning 'month' or 'moon'. This root is also the source of the Latin word 'mensis', meaning 'month', and the Greek word 'mēnē', meaning 'moon'.
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Synonyms for “moon”

Other words for “moon” include lunar, satellite.

Word families for “moon”

Moonless, moons

Common misspellings of “moon”

Muon, mun

Similar words to “moon”

Maroon, mon, moo, moons, mormon, moron, morons, morton, motion, mouton, majoon, mocoan, moison, monont, mooner, moonja, moorn, ramoon, simoon, moong, morone, monton, moonie

Scrambled words derived from “moon”

Mono, nomo, oonm, mnoo, noom, omon, oomn, onom, omno, onmo, nmoo

Crossword clues for “moon”

Lunar body's cycle is no om (4).

Anagrams of “moon”

Mono

Fun facts about the word “moon”

The word “moon” has a Scrabble score of 6 and reads noom in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “moon”

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“moon” spelled in Morse code

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Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “moon”

Lowercase word: 109 111 111 110

Uppercase word: 77 79 79 78

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “moon”

Lowercase word: 1101101 1101111 1101111 1101110

Uppercase word: 1001101 1001111 1001111 1001110

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “moon”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x6D 0x6F 0x6F 0x6E

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x4D 0x4F 0x4F 0x4E

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “moon”

Lowercase: 109 111 111 110

Upprcase: 77 79 79 78

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “moon”

Lowercase: 155 157 157 156

Upprcase: 115 117 117 116

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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