feast day

noun

"feast-day" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“feast day” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A religious festival for a particular saint or religious event.

Corpus desk

Index EN-feast-day · feast day · English

feast day · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" 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.

Key facts for feast day
PropertyValue
Headwordfeast day
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “feast day” in English

feast dayfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

feast day is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A religious festival for a particular saint or religious event.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for feast day, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is feast day, spelled F-E-A-S-T- -D-A-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    A religious festival for a particular saint or religious event.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how feast day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 17th March is St Patrick's feast day.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feast day"?
"feast day" is spelled F-E-A-S-T- -D-A-Y.
What does "feast day" mean?
As a noun, "feast day" means: A religious festival for a particular saint or religious event.
What language does "feast day" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list