the day before yesterday
The verdict
“the day before yesterday” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — vorgestern
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | the day before yesterday |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “the day before yesterday” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for the day before yesterday is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "vorgestern".
No misspelling variants are generated for the day before yesterday in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is the day before yesterday, spelled T-H-E- -D-A-Y- -B-E-F-O-R-E- -Y-E-S-T-E-R-D-A-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vorgestern
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-H-E- -D-A-Y- -B-E-F-O-R-E- -Y-E-S-T-E-R-D-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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