About The Word “Until”

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

How to spell “until”

Until is spelled u-n-t-i-l and has 5 letters.


How to pronounce “until”

IPA pronunciation: /ʌnˈtɪl/

Phonetic pronunciation: uhn-til


How many vowels and consonants in “until”

The word “until” has 3 consonants and 2 vowels.


How many syllables in “until”?

There are 2 syllables in the word “until”.


What type of word is “until”?

The word "until" can be a prepositional phrase and conjunction.

Meaning of the word “until”

The word 'until' is a preposition or conjunction used to indicate the point in time when a particular event or condition will cease or change. It signifies the continuation of an action or state up to a specified moment or occurrence.

Origin of the word “until”

The word 'until' originated from the Old Norse word 'und', meaning 'up to', combined with the Old English word 'till', meaning 'time or point'. This combination resulted in the Middle English word 'until', which has retained its meaning as 'up to a certain point or time' in modern English.

Example sentences with the word “until”


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Synonyms for “until”

Other words for “until” include till, up to, up until, as late as, before, prior to.

Common misspellings of “until”

Ontil

Similar words to “until”

Sunil, untie, untill, util, utile, untile, untiled, untin, punti

Scrambled words derived from “until”

Tlinu, nitlu, tulni, ilnut, utinl, nltui, nulti, nutil, tilun, uinlt, ituln, nlitu, ilunt, nilut, tuinl, ntliu, tinlu, ltuni, niltu, ilutn, iltun, luitn, lutni, uiltn, lutin

Words that rhyme with “until”

Spill, thrill, still, chill, will, bill, hill, pill, grill, fill

Crossword clues for “until”

Ceaselessly working in unit, lacking last letter (5).

Anagrams of “until”

Unlit

Fun facts about the word “until”

The word “until” has a Scrabble score of 5 and reads litnu in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “until”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“until” spelled in Morse code

..- -. - .. .-.. (dot dot dash dash dot dash dot dot dot dash dot dot).

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 “until”

Lowercase word: 117 110 116 105 108

Uppercase word: 85 78 84 73 76

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 “until”

Lowercase word: 1110101 1101110 1110100 1101001 1101100

Uppercase word: 1010101 1001110 1010100 1001001 1001100

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 “until”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x75 0x6E 0x74 0x69 0x6C

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x55 0x4E 0x54 0x49 0x4C

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 “until”

Lowercase: 117 110 116 105 108

Upprcase: 85 78 84 73 76

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 “until”

Lowercase: 165 156 164 151 154

Upprcase: 125 116 124 111 114

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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