Friday
Fri·day/ˈfɹaɪ.deɪ/noun, adverb
Friday is spelled F-R-I-D-A-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables (Fri·day). It appears 91 times per million words in written English, the 1,167th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Friday means “The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim Sabbath; it…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Friday is Fridays.
How many letters and syllables are in Friday?
| Letters | 6: F-R-I-D-A-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: Fri·day |
| In writing | 91 times per million words; the 1,167th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is Friday?
Friday appears 91 times per million words in written English, the 1,167th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce Friday?
- US /ˈfɹaɪ.deɪ/
- US /-.di/
- /ˈfɹaɪ.də/
Friday has 2 syllables, split Fri·day in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-Friday.ogg, En-us-Friday.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Friday
- Fridays plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does Friday mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim Sabbath; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.
- 2
colloquialThe last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.
Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.
adverb
- 1
CanadaUSinformalOn Friday.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Friday in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vendredi |
| German | Freitag , freitags, am Freitag |
| Portuguese | sexta-feira, sexta |
| Spanish | viernes , el viernes |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Friday come from?
From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of Frīġ and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus. See also friend. Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag. Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).