Saturday
Sat·ur·day/ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/noun, adverb, verb
Saturday is spelled S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y, 3 syllables: Sat·ur·day. The wrong spelling people search most is saterday: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 39 of all searches for the word. Saturday is a noun meaning “The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the…”. The plural of Saturday is Saturdays.
How many letters and syllables are in Saturday?
| Letters | 8: S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: Sat·ur·day |
| In writing | 74 times per million words; the 1,427th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, saterday, about 210 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell Saturday?
Saturday is spelled S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 39 of the searches for Saturday in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is Saturday?
Saturday appears 74 times per million words in written English, the 1,427th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce Saturday?
- UK /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/
- UK /ˈsæt.ə.di/
- /ˈsæt.ə.də/
Saturday has 3 syllables, split Sat·ur·day in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-Saturday.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-Saturday.wav, En-us-Saturday.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Saturday
- Saturdays plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- Saturdaying participle, present
- Saturdayed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does Saturday mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
adverb
- 1
CanadaUSinformalOn Saturday.
verb
- 1
To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Saturday in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense day of the week:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Saturday come from?
From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī, equivalent to Saturn + day. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).