Monday
/ˈmʌn.deɪ/
"monday" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Monday” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #1,666 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,666
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Monday |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmʌn.deɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Monday” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Monday is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmʌn.deɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,666 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Monday, with forms such as "mmonday", "mnoday", and "modnay". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "money", "moody", "Monty", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English Monday, Monenday, from Old English mōnandæġ (“day of the moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Lūnae, equivalent to Moon + day. See also Japanese 月曜日 (“Moon's day”). Cognates Compa… The correct English form is Monday, spelled M-O-N-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.
Etymology
From Middle English Monday, Monenday, from Old English mōnandæġ (“day of the moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Lūnae, equivalent to Moon + day. See also Japanese 月曜日 (“Moon's day”). Cognates Compare Scots Monanday (“Monday”), Yola Mondei (“Monday”), Saterland Frisian Moundai (“Monday”), West Frisian moandei (“Monday”), Alemannic German meintog, miantag, méntag, mìntàg, mäntag, Määntig (“Monday”), Bavarian Monda, Mondåg, montach, monti (“Monday”), Cimbrian matak, menta, méentag (“Monday”), Dutch maandag (“Monday”), German Montag (“Monday”), German Low German Maandag (“Monday”), Luxembourgish Méindeg (“Monday”), Mòcheno ma'ta (“Monday”), Pennsylvania German Mundaag, Muundaag (“Monday”), Vilamovian möntaog (“Monday”), West Flemish moandag (“Monday”), Yiddish מאָנטיק (montik, “Monday”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål mandag (“Monday”), Faroese mánadagur (“Monday”), Icelandic mánudagur (“Monday”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish måndag (“Monday”), Finnish maanantai (“Monday”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmonday,mnoday,modnay,monady,mondayy,mondday,mondya,monnday,omnday
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Monday - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Monday”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-N-D-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmʌn.deɪ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “money” - see the side-by-side comparison. Monday vs money
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.