evensong
"evensong" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“evensong” is uncommon English (frequency #90,426 among 18,836 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,426
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal Church, that takes place in the early hours of the evening; originally, and sometimes still, an alternative name for vespers or ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | evensong |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “evensong” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
evensong is uncommon English at frequency #90,426 among 18,836 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal Church, that takes place in the early hours of the evening; originally, and sometimes still, an alternative name for vespers or ...".
evensong has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English ǣfensang, equivalent to even + song. The correct English form is evensong, spelled E-V-E-N-S-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal Church, that takes place in the early hours of the evening; originally, and sometimes still, an alternative name for vespers or a service combining vespers and compline.
Etymology
From Old English ǣfensang, equivalent to even + song.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “evensong”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-V-E-N-S-O-N-G - 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.