Saturday
/ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/
"saturday" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Saturday” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,438
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-saturday · Saturday · English
Saturday · rank #1,438 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #1,438
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH ran
Nearest frequency peer: ran (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Saturday”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- pop
pop
98,566 corpus weight
- produced
produced
98,565 corpus weight
- ran
ran
98,564 corpus weight
- Saturday
Saturday
98,563 corpus weight
- status
status
98,562 corpus weight
- therefore
therefore
98,561 corpus weight
What this shows “Saturday” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Saturday |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Saturday”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Saturday (IPA /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,438 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Saturday, with forms such as "asturday", "satruday", and "satturday". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sturdy", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Sa… The correct English form is Saturday, spelled S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1The 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Saturday appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Beijing-based firm — one of four funds created by the Chinese government in 1999 to process the bad loans of state-owned banks — announced Saturday that it would send a group of 50 experts to the province to help it “prevent and defuse risks” and “bail out” the real estate industry.
Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the Nor…
Etymology
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. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asturday
- satruday
- satturday
- satudray
- saturady
- saturdayy
- saturdday
- saturdya
- saturrday
- sautrday
- ssaturday
- staurday
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Saturday - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Saturday", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).