evening prayer

noun

"evening-prayer" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“evening prayer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The second of the two services of the Daily Office, combining the canonical hours of vespers and compline.

Corpus desk

Index EN-evening-prayer · evening prayer · English

evening prayer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for evening prayer
PropertyValue
Headwordevening prayer
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “evening prayer” in English

evening prayersits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

evening prayer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for evening prayer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is evening prayer, spelled E-V-E-N-I-N-G- -P-R-A-Y-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    The second of the two services of the Daily Office, combining the canonical hours of vespers and compline.
  2. 2
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see evening, prayer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how evening prayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. – – has been set at two in the morning prayer, four in the midday prayer, four in the afternoon prayer, three in the sunset prayer, and four in the evening prayer.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "evening prayer"?
"evening prayer" is spelled E-V-E-N-I-N-G- -P-R-A-Y-E-R.
What does "evening prayer" mean?
As a noun, "evening prayer" means: The second of the two services of the Daily Office, combining the canonical hours of vespers and compline.
What language does "evening prayer" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list