Christmas Day
"christmas-day" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Christmas Day” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The day on which Christmas is celebrated. It is December 25 in the West, and January 7 in some Eastern Orthodox churches.
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Index EN-christmas-day · Christmas Day · English
Christmas Day · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Christmas Day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Christmas Day” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Christmas Day is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The day on which Christmas is celebrated. It is December 25 in the West, and January 7 in some Eastern Orthodox churches.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Christmas Day, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Cristemasse day, from Old English Cristes mæssedæġ (“Christmas Day”, literally “day of Christ's mass”). Now equivalent to Christmas + day. The correct English form is Christmas Day, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S- -D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1The day on which Christmas is celebrated. It is December 25 in the West, and January 7 in some Eastern Orthodox churches.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Christmas Day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When Christmas Day falls upon a Saturday (as it did in 1736,) the Collect, Epistle and Gospel for St. Stephen's Day follows of Course, and no Notice is taken of the Sunday after Christmas Day
Etymology
From Middle English Cristemasse day, from Old English Cristes mæssedæġ (“Christmas Day”, literally “day of Christ's mass”). Now equivalent to Christmas + day.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.