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Detailed reference entry for the English word "saint-valentine-s-day", 21-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "saint-valentine-s-day" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "saint-valentine-s-day" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.

Saint Valentine's Day is aEnglishname. It means: A holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love. Pronounced /ˌseɪntˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/.

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Key facts for Saint Valentine's Day
PropertyValue
HeadwordSaint Valentine's Day
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechName
IPA/ˌseɪntˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Saint Valentine's Day is not present in the top-100,000 ranked English corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for Saint Valentine's Day is 21 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌseɪntˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Saint Valentine's Day in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Saint Valentine's Day, spelled S-A-I-N-T- -V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E-'-S- -D-A-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    A holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Saint Valentine's Day"?
"Saint Valentine's Day" is spelled S-A-I-N-T- -V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E-'-S- -D-A-Y. The IPA pronunciation is /ˌseɪntˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/.
What does "Saint Valentine's Day" mean?
As a name, "Saint Valentine's Day" means: A holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love.
How do you pronounce "Saint Valentine's Day"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Saint Valentine's Day" is /ˌseɪntˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.