# midday

> English word · Noun · IPA /mɪdˈdeɪ/ · frequency rank #17,900

## Definitions
1. Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.

## Etymology
From Middle English midday, from Old English middæġ (“midday, noon”), equivalent to mid- + day. Cognate with Scots midday (“midday”), West Frisian middei (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Dutch middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), German Mittag (“noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon”), Danish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Norwegian Bokmål middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Swedish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”).

## Easily confused with
- **muddy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/midday-vs-muddy)
- **Mindy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/midday-vs-mindy)
- **middle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/midday-vs-middle)
- **Monday** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/midday-vs-monday)
- **midway** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/midday-vs-midway)
- **mildly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/midday-vs-mildly)
- **Maddy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maddy-vs-midday)
- **Midas** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/midas-vs-midday)
- **mayday** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mayday-vs-midday)
- **Medway** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/medway-vs-midday)

## Common misspellings (7)
`imdday`, `mdiday`, `midady`, `miday`, `middayy`, `middya`, `mmidday`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/midday