Work day or workday?
work day is a noun meaning “Alternative form of workday”; workday is a noun meaning “Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek”. work day is written as two words and workday as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between work day and workday?
| work day | workday | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, adjective |
| Meaning | Alternative form of workday | USAny of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek USThat part of a day in which work is done |
| Example | none recorded | It will take five workdays to process your application |
| Forms | none | workdays |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 1 million words |
Sources: work day and workday 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 work day and workday
work day
- 1
Alternative form of workday
workday
- 1
USAny of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek
It will take five workdays to process your application
- 2
Alternative form of workaday
- 3
USThat part of a day in which work is done
My workday is 8 hours
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, work day or workday?
work day is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; workday about once in every 1 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 work day vs workday?
“work day vs workday” is searched about 110 times a month on Google and 20 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“workday vs work day”, “work day or workday”).
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