evening star
"evening-star" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“evening star” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The planet Venus as seen in the western sky in the evening.
Corpus desk
Index EN-evening-star · evening star · English
evening star · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" 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 | evening star |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “evening star” in English
Rare enough to double-check
evening star is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The planet Venus as seen in the western sky in the evening.".
evening star has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From evening + star. Cf. Old English ǣfensteorra. The correct English form is evening star, spelled E-V-E-N-I-N-G- -S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1The planet Venus as seen in the western sky in the evening.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how evening star appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: Phosphorus
We now know that the evening star is the morning star – that is, Hesperus is Phosphorus.
Etymology
From evening + star. Cf. Old English ǣfensteorra.
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.