New Year's Day
"new-year-s-day" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“New Year's Day” 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) - A holiday celebrating the first day of the New Year, celebrated on January 1 in cultures following the Gregorian calendar.
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Index EN-new-year-s-day · New Year's Day · English
New Year's Day · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" 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 | New Year's Day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “New Year's Day” in English
Rare enough to double-check
New Year's Day is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A holiday celebrating the first day of the New Year, celebrated on January 1 in cultures following the Gregorian calendar.".
New Year's Day doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is New Year's Day, spelled N-E-W- -Y-E-A-R-'-S- -D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A holiday celebrating the first day of the New Year, celebrated on January 1 in cultures following the Gregorian calendar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how New Year's Day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Holonym: New Year's (holiday-time sense)
The good people of Han-tan were in the habit, every New Year's day, of presenting their Governor, Chien Tzü, with a number of live pigeons.
This word in other languages
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.