evening star
"evening-star" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“evening star” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The planet Venus as seen in the western sky in the evening.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | evening star |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “evening star” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for evening star is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “evening star”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-V-E-N-I-N-G- -S-T-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.