monthly friend

noun

"monthly-friend" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“monthly friend” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The menstrual period.

Corpus desk

Index EN-monthly-friend · monthly friend · English

monthly friend · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for monthly friend
PropertyValue
Headwordmonthly friend
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “monthly friend” in English

monthly friendsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

monthly friend is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The menstrual period.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for monthly friend, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is monthly friend, spelled M-O-N-T-H-L-Y- -F-R-I-E-N-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    The menstrual period.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how monthly friend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Experiencing the visit of my monthly friend at work, I trudged out into the kiln today, across the car park to the little shop in search of some tampons.
  2. "Office sex; I've never done it, but Kat tells me it's amazing. We'll have to try it once my monthly friend leaves."

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "monthly friend"?
"monthly friend" is spelled M-O-N-T-H-L-Y- -F-R-I-E-N-D.
What does "monthly friend" mean?
As a noun, "monthly friend" means: The menstrual period.
What language does "monthly friend" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list