midyear
noun
midyear is a noun meaning “The middle part of a year” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-D-Y-E-A-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of midyear is midyears.
What does midyear mean?
noun
- 1
The middle part of a year.
- 2
An examination taken in the middle part of an academic year.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce midyear?
Midyear has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of midyear
- midyears plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is midyear?
Midyear appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 67,454th 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).
Words people confuse with midyear
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: mid-year (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does midyear come from?
From mid- + year.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).