Father's Day
/faːðɚz dɛɪː/
"father-s-day" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Father's Day” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a 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) - A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Father's Day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /faːðɚz dɛɪː/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Father's Day” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Father's Day is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /faːðɚz dɛɪː/. 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: "A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.".
Father's Day has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Father's Day, spelled F-A-T-H-E-R-'-S- -D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.
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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 “Father's Day”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-T-H-E-R-'-S- -D-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /faːðɚz dɛɪː/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.