night after night
"night-after-night" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“night after night” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Every night or evening for a long period of time.
Corpus desk
Index EN-night-after-night · night after night · English
night after night · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | night after night |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “night after night” in English
Rare enough to double-check
night after night is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Every night or evening for a long period of time.".
night after night doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is night after night, spelled N-I-G-H-T- -A-F-T-E-R- -N-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Every night or evening for a long period of time.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how night after night appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Coordinate term: day after day
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (a week). Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Seven days a week. Every hour, every minute, every second. You know night after night, I'll be lovin' you right.
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.