Memorial Day
"memorial-day" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Memorial Day” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A federal holiday honoring fallen soldiers, sailors, and other servicemen observed on the last Monday in May.
Corpus desk
Index EN-memorial-day · Memorial Day · English
Memorial Day · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | Memorial Day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Memorial Day” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Memorial Day is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Memorial Day in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Memorial Day, spelled M-E-M-O-R-I-A-L- -D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A federal holiday honoring fallen soldiers, sailors, and other servicemen observed on the last Monday in May.
- 2A provincial holiday held in July 1 in Newfoundland and Labrador commemorating the fallen members of the Newfoundland Regiment during the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel in World War I.
- 3Synonym of Tomb Sweeping Day, a Chinese holiday.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Memorial Day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Memorial Day weekend is among the busiest for travel in the United States and the unofficial start of summer; a day for cookouts, beach trips and auto races. But how did Memorial Day, held on the last Monday of May in honor of America’s war dead, begin?
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.