Mid-day or midday?
mid-day is a noun meaning “Alternative form of midday”; midday is a noun meaning “Noon; twelve o'clock during the day”. mid-day is written with a hyphen and midday as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between mid-day and midday?
| mid-day | midday | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative form of midday | Noon; twelve o'clock during the day |
| Example | none recorded | One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight |
| Forms | mid-days | middays |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /mɪdˈdeɪ/ /ˈmɪd.deɪ/ |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 2.3 times per million words |
Sources: mid-day and midday in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of mid-day and midday
mid-day
- 1
Alternative form of midday
midday
- 1
Noon; twelve o'clock during the day
One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, mid-day or midday?
mid-day is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; midday 2.3 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search mid-day vs midday?
“mid-day vs midday” is searched about 20 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“midday vs mid-day”, “mid-day or midday”).
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