Which to use
“yesterday” and “yesterdays” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,325
- “yesterday” frequency rank
- #49,734
- “yesterdays” frequency rank
- 51059
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | yesterday | yesterdays |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | The day immediately before today; one day ago. | plural of yesterday. |
Letter map: yesterday vs yesterdays
Shared letters muted; letters that set yesterday and yesterdays apart highlighted. Shared run: 9.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
yesterday and yesterdays are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “yesterday” sits inside “yesterdays”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51059, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
yesterday is recorded at frequency rank #1,325, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈjɛstədeɪ/. yesterdays is at rank #49,734, tagged as anoun.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 51059, this pair ranks #168,749 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of yesterday vs yesterdays
Shared letters: adersty. Private to "yesterday": -. Private to "yesterdays": -.
"yesterday" · 9 letters · shape VVCCVCCVV · "yesterdays" · 10 letters · shape VVCCVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- yesterday ← eysterday · yesetrday · yessterday · yestedray · yesterady · yesterdayy · yesterdday · yesterdya
- yesterdays ← eysterdays · yesetrdays · yessterdays · yestedrays · yesteradys · yesterdasy · yesterdayss · yesterdayys