Mid-year or midyear?
mid-year is an adjective meaning “Taking place in or relating to the middle of a year”; midyear is a noun meaning “The middle part of a year”. Use mid-year as an adjective and midyear as a noun. mid-year is written with a hyphen and midyear as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between mid-year and midyear?
| mid-year | midyear | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | noun |
| Meaning | Taking place in or relating to the middle of a year | The middle part of a year An examination taken in the middle part of an academic year |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | none | midyears |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 5 million words |
Sources: mid-year and midyear 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-year and midyear
mid-year
- 1
Taking place in or relating to the middle of a year
midyear
- 1
The middle part of a year
- 2
An examination taken in the middle part of an academic year
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-year or midyear?
mid-year is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; midyear about once in every 5 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-year vs midyear?
“mid-year vs midyear” is searched about 10 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“midyear vs mid-year”, “mid-year or midyear”).
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