Week-end or weekend?
week-end is a noun meaning “Dated spelling of weekend”; weekend is a noun meaning “The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy…”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. week-end is written with a hyphen and weekend as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between week-end and weekend?
| week-end | weekend | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, verb, adjective |
| Meaning | Dated spelling of weekend | The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday To spend the weekend Of, relating to or for the weekend |
| Example | none recorded | We'll weekend at the beach |
| Forms | week-ends | weekends |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /wiːˈkɛnd/ /ˈwiːˌkɛnd/ /ˈwiˌkɛnd/ |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 85 times per million words |
Sources: week-end and weekend 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 week-end and weekend
week-end
- 1
Dated spelling of weekend
weekend
- 1
The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday
- 2
To spend the weekend
We'll weekend at the beach
- 3
Of, relating to or for the weekend
I'm wearing my weekend shoes
- 4
Occurring at the weekend
a weekend break
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, week-end or weekend?
week-end is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; weekend 85 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).