eventide
/ˈiːvənˌtaɪd/
"eventide" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eventide” is uncommon English (frequency #83,231 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,231
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Evening.
Corpus desk
Index EN-eventide · eventide · English
eventide · rank #83,231 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,231
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH expiation
Nearest frequency peer: expiation (+3 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “eventide”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- enunciation
enunciation
16,781 corpus weight
- estrogenic
estrogenic
16,778 corpus weight
- etheric
etheric
16,776 corpus weight
- eventide
eventide
16,770 corpus weight
- expiation
expiation
16,767 corpus weight
- Fairclough
Fairclough
16,763 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “eventide” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eventide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈiːvənˌtaɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “eventide” in English
Rare enough to double-check
eventide is uncommon English at frequency #83,231 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈiːvənˌtaɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Evening.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for eventide, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English eventyde, from Old English ǣfentīd, derived from ǣfen (“evening”) + tīd (“time”). By surface analysis, even + -tide. The correct English form is eventide, spelled E-V-E-N-T-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Evening.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how eventide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The mist rises from the lake at eventide.
Etymology
From Middle English eventyde, from Old English ǣfentīd, derived from ǣfen (“evening”) + tīd (“time”). By surface analysis, even + -tide.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).