Lord's Day
"lord-s-day" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Lord's 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sunday, the first day of the week, particularly as the Christian Sabbath.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lord-s-day · Lord's Day · English
Lord's Day · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lord's Day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Lord's Day” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Lord's Day is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sunday, the first day of the week, particularly as the Christian Sabbath.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Lord's Day, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: A calque of Ecclesiastical Latin diēs Dominicus, either directly or as a later development of Old Norse dróttinsdagr (“Lord's day”) The correct English form is Lord's Day, spelled L-O-R-D-'-S- -D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Sunday, the first day of the week, particularly as the Christian Sabbath.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lord's Day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All officers in command of Her Majesty’s ships shall cause public worship of Almighty God to be solemnly, orderly and reverently performed in their respective ships, and shall take care that prayers and preaching, by the chaplains of those ships, be performed diligently and that the Lord’s Day be observed.
Etymology
A calque of Ecclesiastical Latin diēs Dominicus, either directly or as a later development of Old Norse dróttinsdagr (“Lord's day”)
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.