Week-long or weeklong?
week-long is an adjective meaning “Alternative form of weeklong”; weeklong is an adjective meaning “Lasting for (approximately) one week”. week-long is written with a hyphen and weeklong as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between week-long and weeklong?
| week-long | weeklong | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective |
| Meaning | Alternative form of weeklong | Lasting for (approximately) one week |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 4 million words |
Sources: week-long and weeklong 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-long and weeklong
week-long
- 1
Alternative form of weeklong
weeklong
- 1
Lasting for (approximately) one week
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-long or weeklong?
week-long is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; weeklong about once in every 4 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 week-long vs weeklong?
“week-long vs weeklong” 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 (“weeklong vs week-long”, “week-long or weeklong”).
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